Roman Catholic Cardinal. Segni born Angelo Felici was the nephew of renowned Vatican diplomat, Archbishop Ettore Felici (1881-1951), former apostolic nuncio in Chile, Yugoslavia and Ireland. Receiving his primary and secondary studies in his native city, Angelo entered the Pontifical Leonine College in 1934 and the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1941, later pursuing further studies at the Pontifical Lateran Athenaeum and the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a doctorate in canon law. Ordained priest in the chapel of the Pontifical Collegio Pio Latino Americano of Rome on April 4, 1942, he joined the Vatican Secretariat of State in 1945 following an invitation from Msgr. Domenico Tardini, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, he was named Privy Chamberlain Supernumerary on June 15, 1949. Faculty member of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, he was appointed Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on November 28, 1958 and under-secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on February 7, 1964. In 1967, Pope Paul VI sent him on a mission to Jerusalem after the Six-Day War between the Arabs and Israelis. Elected archbishop of the titular see of Cesariana and appointed pro-nuncio in Holland by the named Pontiff on July 22, 1967, he received his episcopal consecration on the following September 24 at the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica from Cardinal Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Named apostolic nuncio in Portugal on May 13, 1976 and later in France on August 27, 1979, Pope John Paul II created him cardinal deacon in the consistory of June 28, 1988 with the deaconry of Ss. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari and named him prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints three days later. Resigning the prefecture on June 13, 1995, he was appointed president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei on December 16 that year. Opting for the order of cardinal priests, his deaconry was elevated 'pro hac vice' to title on January 9, 1999. Resigning the presidency of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei on April 14, 2000, Felici never fully recovered after suffering a fall at the Aula Paolo VI, breaking his thigh. He died at the age of 87 on Sunday, June 17, 2007, at 9.10 am., in his Roman residence at Piazza della Città Leonina. Pope Benedict XVI presided his exequies on Tuesday June 19, 2007, at 5 pm., in the altar of the chair of the Papal Vatican Basilica. His remains were later interred in his family tomb inside the cemetery of Segni.