Gabriele Ferretti

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Gabriele Cardinal Ferretti (contemporary painting by Francesco Podesti )

Gabriele Ferretti (born January 31, 1795 in Ancona , † September 13, 1860 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman, bishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Gabriele Ferretti, son of a count family and removed with Pope Pius IX. related, grew up in Parma from 1799 . He studied there and in Siena , at the seminary in Ancona and at the Collegio Romano . On June 1, 1817 Ferretti was ordained a priest , in September 1818 he became a doctor of theology . After initially working as archpriest at the Cathedral of Ancona, he soon went to Rome, where he was first known in 1825 through a sermon on the occasion of the Holy Year .

Pope Leo XII. appointed him on May 21, 1827 Bishop of Rieti . He was ordained bishop six days later by Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi ; Co-consecrators were Lorenzo Girolamo Mattei and Antonio Baldini . In 1831 Ferretti was confronted with a revolution in central Italy in which his brother Pietro was also involved. In Rieti, however, the uprisings were repulsed. At the end of July 1833 he became apostolic nuncio in Naples , where he was involved in the negotiations for the drafting of a concordat with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies - which were not very successful from the perspective of the Holy See . On May 19, 1837, Pope Gregory XVI appointed Ferretti as Bishop of Montefiascone , with the personal title of Archbishop . Ferretti was only able to leave Naples in August of the same year due to a cholera epidemic. On October 2, 1837, he was appointed Archbishop of Fermo . To the displeasure of many, he closed the old university there and introduced a general restorative policy.

In the consistory of November 30, 1838, Gregory XVI took him. in pectore to the College of Cardinals , the appointment as cardinal priest and the assignment of the titular church Santi Quirico e Giulitta was not announced until 1839. On January 12, 1842, Cardinal Ferretti, who was one of the strongest supporters of Gregory XVI's policy. was deemed to have down the line of the Archdiocese of Fermo. Since he has made himself unpopular by his administration, he had to secretly leave Fermo. On March 14, 1843, he became Prefect of the Congregation for Relics and Indulgences . After the death of Gregory XVI. he took part in the conclave of 1846 , the Pius IX. chose.

Pius IX appointed him in December 1846 as papal legate in Pesaro and Urbino. Ferretti became cardinal state secretary on July 17, 1847 , which he remained until January 20, 1848. For fear of the papal state's loss of sovereignty, Cardinal Ferretti let the papal collaborators from the time of Gregory XVI. replace with new, more liberal dignitaries. In 1848 he became the papal legate in Ravenna after the Pope had previously withdrawn his trust as State Secretary. In the face of the revolution of 1848 , Cardinal Ferretti lost interest in politics and in 1849 believed that the “powers of darkness” would conquer the Church. He lived in isolation, even when the Pope returned from exile in Gaeta in April 1850, he did not appear in Rome.

He did not return to Rome until March 1852 when Pius IX. appointed cardinal major penitentiary. In the following year he became Cardinal Bishop of Sabina . Cardinal Ferretti, however, soon withdrew from public life, completely ignoring political and secular events. In 1860 he fell ill, and in June he appeared in public for the last time at a trade fair. Cardinal Ferretti died three months later and was buried in the Capuchin Church of Santissima Concezione .

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predecessor Office successor
Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli Major cardinal
penalties 1852–1860 		Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo
Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi Cardinal Secretary of State
1847–1848 		Giuseppe Bofondi
Giacomo Luigi Brignole Cardinal Bishop of Sabina
1853–1860 		Girolamo d'Andrea
personal data
SURNAME Ferretti, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, bishop and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Ancona
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1860
Place of death Rome