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October 18, 2006
Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (born 1929)
Mario Francesco Pompedda
Carlo Mario Francesco Pompedda was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura for the Roman Curia. He spent nearly fifty years in a variety of posts within the Catholic Church's ecclesiastical court system, from 1955 to 2004.