Costante Maltoni
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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.
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Costante Maltoni was born on 14 February 1915 in Forlimpopoli, Italy. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Bertinoro on 26 June 1938.
During World War II, he led a parish in his home town, taught at the Bertinoro seminary, and headed the local branch of Catholic Action.
To prepare for a diplomatic career he entered the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in 1946.
From 1960 to 1967, he worked in the Apostolic Nunciature to Switzerland, based in Berne. In 1961, as papal delegate to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he announced the Holy See's aid to refugees would no longer be limited to refugees as the Holy See stipulated when signing the Geneva Convention in 1952.
On 2 January 1967, Pope Paul VI named him titular archbishop of Thugga and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan.
He received his episcopal consecration on 12 March 1967 from Cardinal Amleto Cicognani.
He resigned in 1970.
Maltoni died on 1 February 1980 at the age of 64.