Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani

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Francesco Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani (born October 1, 1871 in Rome , Italy ; † January 13, 1951 there ) was an Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani was a seminarian at Almo Collegio Capranica and received the sacrament of priestly ordination on April 4, 1896 after studying mathematics and later Catholic theology and canon law . During his theology studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University , he had already Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. , met.

On February 16, 1918, he was appointed titular archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria , and he was ordained episcopate by Pietro Cardinal Gasparri ; Co- consecrators were Carlo Pietropaoli , former Apostolic Delegate in Venezuela, and Bonaventura Cerretti , Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Duties. On 21 May 1920 he was appointed Apostolic Internuncio (from 1920 apostolic nuncio ) in Venezuela called. In December 1920 he was appointed head of the Apostolic Nunciature in Austria . On December 15, 1922, he returned to the Vatican and was appointed secretary of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide .

On June 30, 1930, Pope Pius XI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Maria Nuova in the College of Cardinals . In 1936 he was appointed Cardinal Bishop of Frascati .

In 1939 he became secretary of the Holy Office and in 1948 prefect of the Congregation for the Ceremonies . In the same year he was elected Dean of the College of Cardinals and thus also raised to Cardinal Bishop of Ostia .

Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani died in Rome on January 13, 1951.

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predecessor Office successor
Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte Cardinal Dean / Cardinal Bishop of Ostia
1948–1951 		Cardinal Eugène Tisserant
Michele Cardinal Lega Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
1936–1951 		Federico Cardinal Tedeschini
Basilio Cardinal Pompili Cardinal Vicar
1931–1951 		Clemente Cardinal Micara
Basilio Cardinal Pompili Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica
1931–1951 		Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella
Donato Raffaele Cardinal Sbarretti Tazza Secretary of the Holy Office
1939–1951 		Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo
personal data
SURNAME Marchetti Selvaggiani, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marchetti Selvaggiani, Cardinal Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, cardinal curia of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1951
Place of death Rome