Carlo Margotti

Carlo Margotti (22 April 1891 – 31 July 1951) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Roman Curia, served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, and was Archbishop of Gorizia and Gradisca for seventeen years.

Biography Carlo Margotti was born on 22 April 1891 in Alfonsine, Italy. He studied at the seminaries in Bologna and Rome and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Bologna on 11 May 1915. From 1915 to 1923 his fulfilled pastoral assignments in Bologna. He taught at the Bologna seminary for two years and in October 1921 joined the staff of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches as secretary of its Russian section.

On 8 March 1930, Pope Pius XI named him titular archbishop of Mesembria and Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople. He received his episcopal consecration on 25 March 1930 from Cardinal Luigi Sincero. On 12 February 1931, Pope Pius assigned him the additional responsibilities of the Apostolic Delegate to Greece.

On 25 July 1934, Pope Pius appointed him Archbishop of Gorizia. On 27 October 1934, Pope Pius named him a consultor to the Congregation for Oriental Churches.

He was the first Italian to lead the archdiocese after a succession of Slovenes and Austrians. Its territory had only been conjoined to Italy at the end of the First World War. He tried, with limited success, to meet the government's demands for imposing the Italian language against the resistance of his Slovene clergy.