Costante Maltoni

Costante Maltoni (14 February 1915 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

Biography Costante Maltoni was born on 14 February 1915 in Forlimpopoli, in Italy. From an early age he was the author of popular prose passages, poems and essays, some of which were published in the magazine "Fiera letteraria". Together with the Marquis Gianraniero Paulucci and Silvio Corbari, in his home in Via Monte Grappa in Forlimpopoli he elaborates the insurrectionary communiqué to the Italians entitled "Movimento Patriottico Giovane Italia", of which the family still retains the original document. Citizen and provincial member of the Liberation Committee, he works at the same time to activate sections of the nascent Democrazia Cristiana.

Delegate of the Holy See at the High Commissioner for Refugees O.N.U 1958 - Geneva Mons. Costante Maltoni then became a delegate of the Holy See at the High Commissioner for Refugees O.N.U. There followed assignments in the nunciatures of the Philippine Islands (1950), Turkey (1953), India (1956), Saigon, Vietnam (1958) and Bern, Switzerland (1960). He was nominated as Councilor of the Nunciature and directed relations between the Vatican and international organizations in Geneva (1961), and the same year he received his episcopal consecration on 12 March 1967 He rests in the family tomb located in the monumental cemetery of Forlimpopoli

Things named in Maltoni's honor Forlimpopoli: plate in memory of Mons. Costante Maltoni in Via Monte Grappa 8 On 25 April 2011 a commemorative plate was affixed by the municipality of Forlimpopoli to the birthplace of Costante Maltoni. The house is the same in which the anti-fascist resistance was organized and where the insurrectionary communiqué to the Italians entitled "Movimento Patriottico Giovane Italia" was written. The street with the same name in Forlimpopoli in the province of Forlì Cesena was named after Costante Maltoni. The plaque on the street of Forlimpopoli named after Mons. Costante Maltoni.