Ersilio Tonini

Ersilio Tonini was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of RavennaCervia from 1975 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994. When Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer died onApril 2010, Cardinal Tonini became the oldest living cardinal. He died onJuly 2013, a few days after his 99th birthday.

Ersilio Tonini was born in San Giorgio Piacentino, and studied at the seminary in Piacenza. He was ordained to the priesthood onApril 1937, and then served as vicerector of the Piacenza seminary until 1939. Tonini furthered his studies at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, obtaining his degrees in civil and canon law, from 1939 to 1943.

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