Carlo Maria Pedicini

Carlo Maria Cardinal Pedicini

Carlo Maria Pedicini (born November 2, 1769 in Benevento , † November 19, 1843 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Pedicini studied at the Collegio Nazareno from 1783 to 1789 . After completing his legal training with Alessandro Macedonio , he completed training at the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy from 1790 to 1792 . At first he was private treasurer and court master of Pius VI. In 1792 he became an assistant at the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature . In 1794 he became consultor of the Congregation for Rites . In 1795 he became prelate of the Tridentine Council. After Pope Pius VII took office , he became a judge ("Realtor") at the Roman Curia , and from 1801 he was prelate of the Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity . After the Italian campaign and the capture of Rome by Napoléon Bonaparte , he was appointed Pro-Secretary of the Curia in 1808. Cardinal deacon Agostino Rivarola ordered him in 1814 in the Vatican Secretariat of State with the aim of restructuring the Papal States . Together with Giovanni Barberi, he was responsible for the health system of the Vatican. Shortly afterwards he became secretary to Giovanni Battista Quarantotti , prefect of the Propaganda Fide . He was ordained a priest on March 26, 1815 . In 1816 he became secretary of the College of Cardinals .

Pope Pius VII appointed him cardinal on March 10, 1823 with the rank of cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Maria in Via . Leo XII. appointed him cardinal priest in 1828 with the titular church Santa Maria della Pace . In 1830 he was appointed cardinal bishop and bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina by Pope Pius VIII . He received his episcopal ordination on August 15, 1830 in the Roman church of S. Maria in Campitelli, Cardinal Dean Bartolomeo Pacca , Bishop of Ostia e Velletri ; Co-consecrators were Giuseppe Della Porta Rodiani , titular patriarch of Constantinople , and Lorenzo Girolamo Mattei , titular patriarch of Antioch . In 1831 Pope Gregory XVI appointed him . to the prefect of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide . In 1834 he also received the titular church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Commendam . In 1837 he became prefect of the Congregation for Rites . In 1840 he was appointed cardinal bishop and bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Porto-Santa Rufina . In 1840/1841 he was chamberlain to the College of Cardinals . He was a participant in the conclaves in 1823 , 1829 and 1830-1831 .

Pedicini was the spiritual director of the mystic Anna Maria Taigi ; he was the initiator of her beatification .

Carlo Maria Pedicini was buried in the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso .

Pedicini, Carlo Maria. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 12, 2016.
Entry on Carlo Maria Pedicini on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 12, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa	Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina 1840–1843	Vincenzo Macchi
Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa	Chamberlain of the College of Cardinals 1840–1841	Antonio Domenico Gamberini
Giorgio Doria Pamphilj Landi	Prefect of the Congregation for Rites 1837–1843	Ludovico Micara OFMCap
Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari	Prefect of the Congregation Propaganda Fide 1831–1837	Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
Francesco Bertazzoli	Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina 1830–1840	Vincenzo Macchi

personal data
SURNAME	Pedicini, Carlo Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH	Benevento , Italy
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1843
Place of death	Rome