Luigi Giordani

Luigi Uberto Angelo Giordani (born October 13, 1822 in Santa Maria Codifiume , Ferrara Province , Emilia-Romagna , † April 21, 1893 in Ferrara ) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of Ferrara .

Life

Giordani was born in Santa Maria Codifiume on October 13, 1822. His parents were Francesco Giordani and Gertrude Boriani. He made an early decision to pursue an ecclesiastical career and received his training at the seminary in Ferrara and in Bologna . On September 19, 1846, he received the sacrament of ordination through Ignazio Giovanni Cadolini , then Archbishop of Ferrara . He continued his studies in Rome. The unrest in Rome in 1848 forced him to move to Marino . A critical letter to his father earned him a brief arrest. In 1852 he became secretary of the Cardinal Secretary of State Giacomo Antonelli . From there he was dispatched and mainly provided emergency aid in some places ( Velletri , Ascoli Piceno , Perugia ). In Perugia he became involved in the conflicts of the Second Italian War of Independence and partly took on state tasks such as organizing the police. In 1860 he had to return to Rome and became consultor of the tax authorities, in 1865 auditor of the Roman Rota . When the Potere Temporale fell (1870) he returned to Ferrara.

In 1871 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Ferrara with the titular diocese of Philadelphia in Arabia . He was ordained bishop on March 19, 1871 in Rome by Cardinal Luigi Vannicelli Casoni , the Archbishop of Ferrara. On June 22, 1877 Giordani himself became Archbishop of Ferrara. In the consistory of March 14, 1887 Pope Leo XIII raised him . the cardinalate , he followed on March 17 of that year, the title of San Martino ai Monti received.

He died on April 21, 1893 and was buried in the Metropolitan Chapel Certosa in Ferrara.

Web links

• Giordani, Luigi. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 4, 2017.
• Entry on Luigi Giordani on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 4, 2017.
• findagrave.com

literature

• La Civiltà cattolica, vol. 6; Vol. 13, 1887: 712.
• L. Meluzzi: Gli arcivescovi di Ferrara. Bologna 1970, pp. 111-113.
• Francesca Brancaleoni:  Giordani, Luigi. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 55:  Ginammi – Giovanni da Crema. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2000.
• Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals. 1846-2012. Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11037077-5 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Luigi Vannicelli Casoni	Archbishop of Ferrara 1877–1887	Egidio Mauri