Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti

Cardinal Milesi Pironi Ferretti (1873)

Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti (born March 9, 1817 in Ancona , † August 2, 1873 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal and minister of the Papal States .

Life

Born as the son of Count Francesco Milesi Pironi Ferretti, consul of the Republic of Venice, and his wife Laura Strina, he came from the nobility. He studied first in Ancona and later at the Pontifical Academy of the Ecclesiastical Nobility in Rome and at the University of La Sapienza there , where he obtained the degree of Doctor iuris utriusque . Then he was trainee lawyer and assessor in the government of the Papal States, from 1839 assessor at the criminal court of the Apostolic Chamber. He was ordained priest in 1842. He was then governor of Ascoli in 1843 , of Civitavecchia in 1844 and of Macerata from 1845 to 1847 . Until 1854 he was Pro-Legate first in Urbino and then in Forlì . From 1854 to 1858 Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti was Minister for Trade, Art and Public Works of the Papal States.

Pope Pius IX elevated him in the consistory of March 15, 1858 to cardinal priest and awarded him the cardinal's hat and the titular church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on March 18 of the same year . From June 25, 1869 to March 21, 1870, Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti was chamberlain of the Holy Cardinals College . He was a participant in the First Vatican Council (1869-1870).

On March 21, 1870 he became Cardinal Bishop of Sabina . He received his episcopal ordination on April 3, 1870, the Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina , Costantino Patrizi Naro ; Co- consecrators were Curia Archbishop Pietro de Villanova Castellacci and Tommaso Gallucci , Bishop of Recanati and Loreto .

literature

• Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals 1846–2012. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-026944-4 , p. 64.
• Marco Severini:  Milesi Ferretti (Milesi Pironi Ferretti), Giuseppe. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 74:  Messi – Miraglia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2010.

Web links

• Milesi Pironi Ferretti, Giuseppe. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 26, 2017.
• Entry on Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 26, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl August von Reisach	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina 1870–1873	Luigi Bilio