Edoardo Menichelli

Episcopate On 10 June 1994 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto. He spent ten years in Chieti. He was secretary of the committee for the family of the Italian Episcopal Conference and headed committees for the family, ecumenism and the pastoral care of leisure for the Marche bishops' conference.

On 15 October 2014, on reaching his 75th birthday, he submitted his resignation as required by canon law, but Pope Francis extended the appointment for one year.

Cardinal On 4 January 2015, Pope Francis announced Menichelli would be made a cardinal at a consistory on 14 February. He was assigned the titular church of Sacri Cuori di Gesù e Maria a Tor Fiorenza.

He was appointed a member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop on 14 July 2017, with Angelo Spina succeeding him as archbishop of Ancona-Osimo.

On 30 September 2017 Francis named him a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.

Menichelli died in San Severino Marche after a long illness on 20 October 2025, at the age of 86.