{"id":58368,"date":"2017-06-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/06\/19\/cardinal-ivan-dias-passes-away-in-rome\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:00:00","slug":"cardinal-ivan-dias-passes-away-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/06\/19\/cardinal-ivan-dias-passes-away-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Ivan Dias passes away in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, a kind, smiley and discreet priest, has died in Rome. He was 81 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He worked for years as a diplomat of the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, John Paul II appointed him archbishop of Mumbai and years later made him a cardinal.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict XVI called him to Rome in 2006 as prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.<\/p>\n<p>Despite needing a wheelchair, he participated in the last conclave and said that he was the first cardinal to greet the new Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>JMB\/MB<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n- PR<br \/>\nUp: MB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, 2017. ;He was a diplomat of the Holy See, but John Paul II appointed him archbishop of Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iqBNCdHa8pA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcarddiasint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}