Domenico Ferrata

Cardinal Ferrata

Coat of arms of Domenico Ferrata

Cardinal Domenico Ferrata (* 4. March 1847 in Gradoli , Viterbo , Papal States today Italy ; † 10. October 1914 in Rome , Italy) was a Vatican diplomat and later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Domenico Ferrata was born in Gradoli on March 4, 1847. On September 18, 1869, Ferrata received the sacrament of ordination . In 1876 he received a professorship for canon law in Rome. In 1879 he became an auditor at the apostolic nunciature in Paris .

In April 1885 Ferrata was appointed Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica and Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium . He received his episcopal ordination on April 19, 1885, the then Cardinal Secretary of State, Lodovico Cardinal Jacobini ; Co - consecrators were Édouard-Joseph Belin , Bishop of Namur , and Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux , Bishop of Tournai . In 1891 Domenico Ferrata became a nuncio in France .

At the age of 49, he was on June 22, 1896 by Pope Leo XIII. accepted into the college of cardinals as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Prisca .

In the following years, Ferrata worked as cardinal prefect in various congregations of the Roman Curia , from 1899 to 1900 as the last prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Holy Relics , which was dissolved in 1904 , from 1900 to 1902 as prefect of the Congregation of Rites and from 1908 to 1914 as prefect of the Pius X. newly established Holy Congregation for the Order of the Sacraments . On January 2, 1914, the Pope appointed him Secretary of the Holy Office .

A month before his death, Pope Benedict XV appointed him . Cardinal Secretary of State on September 4, 1914 .

Ferrata, Domenico. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed September 5, 2016.
Entry on Domenico Ferrata on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on September 5, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Lucido Maria Parocchi	Cardinal Chamberlain 1899–1912	Aristide Rinaldini
Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta	Cardinal Secretary of State 1914	Pietro Gasparri
Pietro Cardinal Respighi	Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica 1913–1914	Basilio Cardinal Pompili
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro	Secretary of the Holy Office 1914	Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val

personal data
SURNAME	Ferrata, Domenico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ferrata, Domenico Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, cardinal secretary of state
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gradoli , Viterbo , Papal States today Italy
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1914
Place of death	Rome