Dino Monduzzi

His Eminence Dino Monduzzi
Cardinal-Deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	21 February 1998
Installed	18 April 1998
Term ended	13 October 2006
Predecessor	Yves-Marie-Joseph Congar
Successor	John Patrick Foley
Previous post(s)	Regent of the Prefecture of the Papal Household (1969-86) Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household (1986-98) Titular Bishop of Capri (1986-98)
Orders
Ordination	22 July 1945 by Giuseppe Battaglia
Consecration	6 January 1987 by Pope John Paul II
Created cardinal	21 February 1998 by Pope John Paul II
Rank	Cardinal-Deacon
Personal details
Born	Dino Monduzzi 2 April 1922 Brisighella, Kingdom of Italy
Died	13 October 2006(2006-10-13) (aged 84) Vatican City
Parents	Secondo Damiano Monduzzi Ida Ragazzini
Alma mater	Pontifical Lateran University
Motto	Patientiam praeficere caritati
Coat of arms

Styles of Dino Monduzzi
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Capreae (titular)

Dino Monduzzi, ComC • GCIH • ComIH (2 April 1922 – 13 October 2006) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household from 1986 to 1998.^[1]

He was born in 1922 to Damiano and Ida (née Ragazzini) Monduzzi in Brisighella, Italy. Monduzzi was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Giuseppe Battaglia of Faenza on 22 July 1945. He celebrated his first Mass the next day, and after this studies at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome earning a licentiate in utroque iure.

After involvement in Catholic Action missions,^[2] Father Monduzzi began work for the Holy See in the late 1950s as an adjunct (and later secretary) in the Prefecture of the Papal Household, which among other duties arranges papal audiences. In 1961 he was elevated to the rank of monsignor. Monduzzi was named prefect of the Papal Household and titular bishop of Capreae on 18 December 1986,^[2] and received his episcopal consecration on 6 January 1987, from Pope John Paul II (with Archbishops Eduardo Martínez Somalo and José Tomás Sánchez as co-consecrators). As Prefect, Monduzzi was responsible for the non-liturgical aspects of papal ceremonies, and the public and private audiences of the pope. He accompanied John Paul II on 130 pastoral pilgrimages and 268 pastoral visits to Roman parishes.

On 7 February 1998, he retired as Prefect of the Papal Household, and was created cardinal-deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 1998.^[2] Cardinal Monduzzi finally succumbed to an ongoing illness and died at 1:00 am on 13 October 2006 at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his funeral Mass on the following 16 October and his remains were then buried in his family tomb in Brisighella.

• Commander of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal (31 August 1967)^[3]
• Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Italy (22 September 1972)^[4]
• Commander of the Order of Christ, Portugal (9 September 1981)^[3]
• Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal (21 December 1990)^[3]
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Italy (27 November 1992)^[5]
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Spain (14 April 1997)^[6]