Salvatore Pappalardo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Salvatore Pappalardo

Italian cardinal

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1918

Place of Birth: Villafranca Sicula, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 10-Dec-2006

Profession: diplomat, Catholic priest

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Salvatore Pappalardo STD JUD (23 September 1918 – 10 December 2006) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Palermo for over 25 years, from 1970 to 1996.
He was the first senior clergyman from Sicily to speak out against the Mafia, breaking its code of omertà (vow of silence). He should not be confused with the still-living current Archbishop of Siracusa, Italy of the same first and last name, who is not a Cardinal but is, like this one, a metropolitan archbishop of an ecclesiastical province.