Angelo de Mojana di Cologna
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Fra' Angelo de Mojana di Cologna (c. 1905, Milan, Italy - 18 January 1988, Rome, Italy) was the 77th Prince
Prince of the Church
The term Prince of the Church is nowadays used nearly exclusively for Catholic Cardinals. However the term is historically more important as a generic term for clergymen whose offices hold the secular rank and privilege of a prince or are considered its equivalent...

 and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1962 to 1988. He was the most recent recipient of the highest Papal Order of Chivalry, the Order of Christ
Order of Christ (papacy)
The Supreme Order of Christ is the highest order of chivalry being awarded by the Pope. According to some scholars owes its origin to the same Order of Christ of the Knights Templar, from which came the Order of Christ that was awarded by the Kings of Portugal and the Emperors of Brazil...

, which he received in 1987, the year before his death, to honour him on the 25th anniversary of his election.
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