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==Curial career==
On 10 December 1996 Sardi was given the title [[Apostolic Nuncio]] with special responsibilities and appointed [[Titular Archbishop]] of [[Sutri|Sutrium]] by [[Pope John Paul II]]. Sardi coordinated the Vatican office that writes and edits the pope's texts and addresses.<ref name=vnobit/><ref name=zobit/> On 6 January 1997, Pope John Paul consecrated him an archbishop in [[Saint Peter's Basilica]].<ref>{{cite document | access-date = 14 July 2019 | date = 6 January 1997 | url = http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/it/homilies/1997/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19970106.html | title = Omelia di Giovanni Paolo II | publisher = Libreria Editrice Vaticana| language = it}}</ref> Among his pastoral duties while at the Secretariat, he for many years said Mass daily at the tomb of [[Pope John XXIII]] in St. Peter's.<ref name=vnobit/> Sardi would serve as the speechwriter for John Paul II as well.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/three-vatican-moles-named-in-leaks-scandal-7966311.html|title=Three Vatican 'moles' named in leaks scandal|author=Day, Michael|newspaper=The Independent|date= 24 July 2012|accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref>
On 23 October 2004, [[Pope John Paul II]] appointed him Vice Camerlengo (chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church.<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 14 July 2019 | language = it| date= 23 October 2004 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2004/10/23/0518/01363.html| title = Rinunce e Nomine, 23.10.2004 | publisher = [[Holy See Press Office]] }}</ref> In this position he was one of a small number of Vatican officials to visit Pope John Paul in his last days.<ref>{{cite news | work = New York Times | access-date = 15 July 2019 | title = As His Church Prays, Weakened Pope Nears Death| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/world/europe/as-his-church-prays-weakened-pope-nears-death.html | first = Ian | last = Fisher | date= 2 April 2005 }}</ref> He held that post until [[Santos Abril y Castelló]] was named to replace him on 22 January 2011.<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 15 July 2019 | language = it| date= 22 January 2011 | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2011/01/22/0043/00109.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 22.01.2011 | publisher = Holy See Press Office }}</ref> The role of vice camerlengo was in addition to his duties at the Secretariat; he complained to Pope Benedict about poor management there in 2009 and joked that, "I'm trying to see in these situations (which, to tell the truth, are numerous) the benevolent intervention of Providence, that wants to prepare me to leave the Secretariat without regrets".<ref name=ncr2012>{{cite news | work = National Catholic Reporter | first = John L. | last = Allen Jr. | url = https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/pondering-what-not-who-vatileaks | date = 1 June 2012 | access-date = 15 July 2019 | title = Pondering the 'what,' not the 'who,' of Vatileaks}}</ref>
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On 29 December 2010 he was appointed a member of the [[Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life]]; the [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints]]; and the [[Pontifical Council for the Laity]].<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 14 July 2019 | language = it| date= 29 December 2010| url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2010/12/29/0811/01865.html| title = Rinunce e Nomine, 29.12.2010| publisher = Holy See Press Office }}</ref> To this Pope Benedict added membership in the [[Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura]] on 31 May 2011.<ref>{{cite press release | access-date = 14 July 2019 | language = it| date= 31 May 2011| url =http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2011/05/31/0335/00834.html | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 31.05.2011| publisher = Holy See Press Office }}</ref>
He was one of the [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 2013|cardinal electors]] who participated in the [[Papal conclave, 2013|2013 papal conclave]] that elected [[Pope Francis]].<ref>{{cite news | work=Zenit |access-date = 14 July 2019 | date= 12 March 2013 | url = https://zenit.org/articles/list-of-cardinal-electors/| title = List of Cardinal Electors }}</ref> One analysis of Vatican politics following that conclave described Sardi as "one of [Cardinal Tarcisio] [[Tarcisio Bertone|Bertone]]'s political adversaries within the Curia".<ref>{{cite news | work = The New Yorker | access-date = 15 July 2019 | date= 7 September 2015 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/14/holy-orders-letter-from-the-vatican-alexander-stille | title = Holy Orders | first = Alexander | last = Stille}}</ref> In 2009 Sardi had complained to Pope Benedict about Vatican mismanagement when Bertone as Secretary of State was the Curia's most powerful figure, writing to Benedict that "
Sardi died in Rome's [[Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic|Gemelli University Hospital]] after a brief illness on 13 July 2019 at the age of 84.<ref name=zobit>{{cite work|title=Collège cardinalice: décès du card. italien Paolo Sardi |url=https://fr.zenit.org/articles/college-cardinalice-deces-du-card-italien-paolo-sardi/ |work=Zenit|accessdate=14 July 2019 |language=fr |date=13 July 2019}}</ref><ref name=vnobit>{{cite news | access-date = 14 July 2019 | language = it | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/it/vaticano/news/2019-07/morto-cardinale-paolo-sardi-84-anni.html | work = Vatican News | date= 14 July 2014 | title = E' morto il cardinale Paolo Sardi: aveva 84 anni }}</ref> Bertone led his concelebrated funeral Mass in St. Peter's on 15 July; Pope Francis delivered the final commendation and blessing.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 15 July 2019 | date= 15 July 2019 | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/es/vaticano/news/2019-07/misa-exequias-difunto-cardenal-paolo-sardi-cardenal-bertone-papa.html | title= Funeral Card. Sardi. Bertone: 'maestro de la teología moral' |first= Mireila | last = Bonilla |work= Vatican News | language= es| | publisher= }}</ref>
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