1930

The year 1930 AD.
==Events==
* February 7: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) appointed Cardinal Secretary of State.
* Pope Pius XI releases the encyclical Casti Connubii. Some have interpreted this as allowing the rhythm method of family planning.
* The Anglican Church issues a statement permitting birth control "when there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood and where there is a morally sound reason for avoiding complete abstinence.
* The American Lutheran Church is formed from the merger of the Iowa Synod, Buffalo Synod and the Joint Synod of Ohio. 
* November 2: Ras Tafari Makonnen, founder of the Rastafari movement, crowned Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
==Births and Deaths==
* January 27: Aloysius Matthew Cardinal Ambrozic of Canada, Archbishop of Toronto
* March 9: Stephen Fumio Cardinal Hamao of Japan, retired President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants 
* March 18: Adam Joseph Cardinal Maida (USA), Archbishop of Detroit
* March 20: Thomas Stafford Cardinal Williams of New Zealand, retired Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand 
* March 22: Birth of Pat Robertson
* May 25: Death of Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1903 - 1928
* June 26: Birth of Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte of Canada, Archbishop of Montreal
* July 7: birth of Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick (USA), Retired Archbishop of Washington, D.C. 
* August 30: Paul Cardinal Poupard France, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture 
* September 6: Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi of Italy) Archbishop of Palermo
* September 18: Birth of Ignace Moussa I Cardinal Daoud of (Syria), Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and former Syrian Rite Patriarch of Antioch.
* September 26: Michele Cardinal Giordano of Italy, retired Archbishop of Naples 
* October 15: birth of Christian Wiyghan Cardinal Tumi of Cameroon, Archbishop of Douala
* November 14: Janis Cardinal Pujats of Latvia, Archbishop of Riga
* December 3: birth of Frédéric Cardinal Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi of the Congo, Archbishop of Kinshasa
==See also==
* 20th century
Category:20th century