Angelo Raffaele Sodano was an Italian Catholic clergyman and cardinal who died on May 27, 2022.
From 2005 to 2019, he was of the College of Cardinals, and from 1991 to 2006, he was Cardinal Secretary of State; Sodano was the first person since 1828 to serve as Dean and Secretary of State at the same time.
He was 94.
Angelo Sodano siblings: Meet Assunta, Piero, Maria, Ausilia
Assunta, Piero, Maria and Ausilia are the known siblings of the Catholic priest.
He once received the Order of the Star of Romania, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
During a meeting with then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2005, Francis reportedly requested her to intercede in a Kentucky sexual abuse case.
The Vatican was named as a defendant. But she declined, according to the National Catholic Reporter at the time.
Throughout the years that followed, he was constantly chastised for downplaying sexual assault or obstructing investigations into the matter.
