Giovanni Battista Lugari

Giovanni Battista Cardinal Lugari (born February 18, 1846 in Rome , † July 31, 1914 there ) was Cardinal of the Curia .

Life

After attending the Collegio Romano at La Sapienza University and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Lugari studied law and received the Doctor juris utriusque . He worked for canonization procedures at the Congregation for Rites and belonged to the Collegio degli avvocati concistoriali . At the age of almost 50, he was ordained a priest on January 15, 1896 .

He then worked in the service of the Roman Curia . His appointment as assessor and sub-promoter Fidei of the Congregation for Rites took place on February 3, 1896. After his appointment as "surplus" secret chamberlain three days later, he became promoter Fidei on June 4 . Pope Leo XIII. appointed him on June 4, 1897 Honorary Prelate of His Holiness .

On March 28, 1900 he was canon of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and on June 10 of the Lateran Basilica . He became papal auditor on April 22, 1901 and served as Fidei promoter in the canonization process of Joan of Arc that same year. He was appointed Assessor of the Congregation of the Roman and General Inquisition on January 11, 1902, and on the following February 1, Canon of St. Peter's Basilica .

On 2 February 1902 he was Apostolic prothonotary supernumerarium and on April 18 of that year, consultor of the Congregation of Rites. For his many years of work in the Curia, Pope Pius X accepted him as a cardinal deacon in the college of cardinals on November 27, 1911, and on November 30 of the same year he received the title of Santa Maria in Portico in Campitelli .

He was buried in the Campo di Verano cemetery.

SE il Card. Giovanni Battista Lugari. In: Romana Tellus. Rivista mensile illustrata d'archeologia, storia, arte e bibliografia 1 (1912) pp. 97–99 (with picture).

personal data
SURNAME	Lugari, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lugari, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic theologian and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 1914
Place of death	Rome