Francesco Segna

Francesco Cardinal Segna (born August 31, 1836 in Poggio Ginolfo , Abruzzo , Italy , † January 4, 1911 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and cardinal librarian .

Life

Francesco Segna was born into a noble and wealthy family in Poggio Ginolfo in Abruzzo. He attended a Jesuit school and later the Roman seminary , where he received his doctorate in theology . He received his doctorate in law from La Sapienza University . He was ordained a priest on December 20, 1860 .

In 1869 he was appointed professor of dogmatics at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare . He served as canon lawyer for the Apostolic Penitentiary . During his time in Rome he was also Undersecretary of State of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs from 1881. In 1884 he was appointed Monsignor . He left Rome in 1884 to become auditor of the Nunciature in Spain and in 1887 he was promoted to their Chargé d'Affaires . After serving in Spain, he returned to Rome in 1888 to become an auditor of the Roman Rota .

In the consistory of May 18, 1894, Francesco Segna was from Pope Leo XIII. elevated to cardinal and shortly thereafter received the title diakonia of Santa Maria in Portico as cardinal deacon . On July 4, 1896, he was appointed cardinal librarian of the Vatican Secret Archives . He was one of the electoral cardinals in the 1903 conclave that Pius X elected. He was a cardinal protodeacon (senior cardinal deacon). On January 13, 1908, he was installed as prefect of the Congregation of the Index , this position held until his death in 1911. He was buried in the Roman cemetery of Campo Verano .

Web links

• Segna, Francesco. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 3, 2017.
• Entry on Francesco Segna on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved May 3, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Cardinal Steinhuber SJ	Cardinal Protodiacon 1907-1911	Francesco Salesio Cardinal della Volpe