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Giovanni Panico took which position from 1962 to 1963?
Giovanni Panico Giovanni Panico ( 12 April 1895 – 7 July 1962 ) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church . He served as nuncio to several countries during his career , and was created a cardinal in 1962 . Life . Early life . Panico was born in Tricase , in the Province of Lecce , to Carmine Panico and his wife Marina Zocco , a farming family . The sixth of eleven children , he was given the baptismal name was Santo Giovanni . After studying under a private tutor , he attended the minor seminary in Ugento . He then went to Rome , where he lived in the Leonine College , a residence for students from southern Italy at the Gregorian University ( 1910–1915 ) , then studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary ( 1915–1919 ) . An accomplished musician on both the organ and the piano , he was the official organist for the seminary during his time there . Panico was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basilio Pompili on 14 March 1919 , in the Lateran Basilica . That summer he founded a boys choir and a separate girls choir for the children of Rome . He then attended the Pontifical Lateran University until 1922 , obtaining a doctorate in theology in 1919 , and later a doctorate in canon and civil law in 1922 . Career . Panico then did pastoral work in his home town from 1922 to 1923 , and was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 25 August 1923 . Invited by the Cardinal Secretary of State to join the papal diplomatic service , he was appointed the auditor of the nunciature for Argentina ( 1926–1931 ) and for Czechoslovakia ( 1931–1932 ) before becoming the chargé daffaires in Bavaria in 1932 , and again in Czechoslovakia in 1933 . During his time in Prague , he also contributed to the foundation of the University of Bratislava . He was created a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 20 August 1934 , and later awarded the Legion of Honor by France . On 17 October 1935 , Panico was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand ( a post he held until 1948 ) and Titular Archbishop of Justiniana Prima by Pope Pius XI . He received his consecration on the following 8 December from Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biondi , with Archbishops Bartolomeo Cattaneo and Domenico Spolvorini serving as co-consecrators , in Rome . As Apostolic Delegate Panico believed that the time had arrived for the promotion of native-born priests as bishops for these countries , instead of Irish-born clergy . This was seen as a very controversial move in some quarters . According to one of the biographers of Archbishop Daniel Mannix , Niall Brennan , Panico was a prelate of uncertain ability , and was known widely among the clergy of Australia as Panicky Jack . Panico officiated at the Eucharistic Congress of 1938 which was held in Newcastle , New South Wales . He also presided over similar events in 1939 in Wellington , New Zealand , to mark the centenary of the Catholic Church in New Zealand ( 1838 ) , and of the nation itself ( the Treaty of Waitangi , 1840 ) . During World War II , Panico established charities for Italian , German , and Japanese prisoners of war in Australia and for the Australian and New Zealand prisoners in Italy . In 1948 , Panico opened Holy Name Seminary in Christchurch , New Zealand . He traveled to New Zealand with Jesuit priests who were to staff it . Their arrival in New Zealand was dramatic as their ship , MS Wanganella , went aground on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour , and they had to be rescued . The Jesuits were playing poker in their cabin at the time the ship hit the reef . Panico rushed into the cabin in his nightshirt and asked what was happening . When one of the Jesuits informed him that they were going to sink , he apparently told them that he must die like a priest so he went and put on his biretta . This was further fuel to his nickname of Panicky Jack . Panico was named nuncio to Peru on 28 September 1948 , and Apostolic Delegate to Canada on 14 November 1953 . Pope John XXIII appointed him nuncio to Portugal on 25 January 1959 . Cardinal and last days . In March 1962 , having suffered from poor health for several years , he was transferred to the Roman Curia and was promoted to the rank of Cardinal Priest in the consistory of 19 March 1962 , with the Basilica of Santa Teresa dAvila as his titular church . He then founded the Cardinale Giovanni Panico Hospital in his native Tricase , where he soon died at age 67 . Panico was originally buried in his familys plot in the town cemetery , but , in keeping with his request , his remains were later moved to the crypt of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the same town . On 23 June 2012 , his remains were transferred to a tomb in front of the altar of St . Charles Borromeo in the main body of the church .