Cardinal
John Paul II created Cheli Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Cosma e Damiano in the consistory of February 24, 1998. This was seen as a reward for his service as a Vatican diplomat, but his elevation was almost an anticlimax because within a year he had passed the age limit for voting in a conclave.
He has been decorated among others with the Order of Isabel the Catholic, and named commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic; and of the Verdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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