Edoardo Borromeo

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Edoardo Cardinal Borromeo

Edoardo Borromeo (also Odoardo Borromeo Arese ; born August 3, 1822 in Milan , † November 30, 1881 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal . He was the seventh of a series of cardinals from the Borromeo family .

biography

Borromeo was prefect of the papal house under Pius IX. This donated him the priestly ordination in December 1846 and elevated him in the consistory of March 16, 1868 to cardinal deacon with the titled deaconry Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia . In 1872 Pius IX appointed him. to the archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica . Cardinal Borromeo was a participant in the First Vatican Council and the Conclave in 1878 , from which Leo XIII. emerged as Pope.

On March 28, 1878 he was accepted into the cardinal class of the cardinal priests and received as titular church Santa Prassede . He was also appointed titular archbishop of Adana on April 19, 1878 . He received his episcopal ordination from Pope Leo XIII. on May 19 of the same year; Co- consecrators were Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella , Grand Almosier of His Holiness , and Francesco Marinelli , Papal Sacristan .

literature

  • Philippe Bountry: Officiers subalternes de la curie et consulteurs des congrégations romaines en fonctions sous la restauration (1814-1846) (notes brèves) . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 111–112 (French, online edition [accessed April 24, 2020]).

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