Heim, Bruno Bernhard

found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(Archbishop Heim, Apostolic Delegate to the United Kingdom since 1973; b. 1911)

found: The Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society website, viewed February 1, 2024(Archbishop Bruno B. Heim, J.C.D., Ph.D.; sometime Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Great Britain; patron of Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society, 1980-2003; the Most Rev. Bruno Bernard Heim; born in Olten, Switzerland on March 5, 1911; introduced to heraldry at age 16 when a college professor asked him to illustrate the book he was writing; admitted as a Ph.D. at Thomas Aquinas University (Angelicum), Rome, 1934; ordained as a priest in 1938 in Basle and Arbon; studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy for Diplomats, Rome, 1943; chief chaplain for Italian and Polish internees in Switzerland, 1943; admitted as Doctor in Canon Law (J.C.D.) at Gregorian University, 1946; personal secretary to the Papal Nuncio of France, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), 1947; counsellor and chargé d'affaires at the Nunciature in Germany; appointed Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia 1961, to Finland in 1966, to Egypt in 1969, to Great Britain in 1973, and to the Court of St James's in 1982; retired in 1985; author of Heraldry in the Catholic Church (1978, rev. 1981), and Or and Argent (1994); Archbishop Heim died on March 18, 2003)