Giuseppe Paupini J.C.D. (25 February 1907 - 18 July 1992) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal who served as Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary. Giuseppe Paupini was born in Mondavio, Italy. He was educated at the local Seminary within the diocese of Fano and later at the Pontifical Regional Seminary "Pio XI" and finally at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome where he earned a doctorate in canon law. He was ordained on 19 March 1930 in Fano. He worked in the diocese of Fano and as a faculty member of its seminary from 1932 until 1939. He entered the service of the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1939 as attaché of the nunciature to France and later as secretary of the nunciature to Italy. He was successively chargé d'affaires of the nunciatures in Honduras, Nicaragua and