Early Life and Ordination
On 26 May 1945, at the age of 22, he was ordained priest in Novara, Italy. He did pastoral ministry in diocese of Novara in 1946. He was sent to Rome for further studies from 1947-1951 at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, where he obtained a doctorate in theology and later at the Pontifical Gregorian University also in Rome where he was awarded a doctorate in canon law.
He was admitted to the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy to study diplomacy. He joined the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1951 and served as an attaché and later secretary in nunciature in Lebanon from 1952-1955. He was the secretary in nunciature in Venezuela from 1956-1959. He worked in the section of Extraordinary Affairs, Secretariat of State, from 1959-1963. He was appointed counselor in nunciature in France where he served from 1963-67. He was appointed Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 18 August 1964. He was counselor in apostolic delegation in the United States in 1968. He was appointed Titular Archbishop of Rusellae on 23 February 1968, aged 45.
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