Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi

Cardinal Gizzi (1840)

Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi (born September 22, 1787 in Ceccano , † June 3, 1849 in Lenola ) was Cardinal State Secretary .

Life

Gizzi came from a wealthy middle-class family. He studied at the seminary to Ferentino theology and received on 2 September 1810, the priestly ordination . Doctor iuris utriusque in Rome in 1817 , became an advocate at the Rota Romana in 1819 and was an auditor at the Nunciature of Lucerne in Switzerland from 1820 to 1823 . Here he was also chargé d'affaires from 1823 to 1827 and Internuntius from 1827 to 1828 . After having worked in similar positions in Munich, Turin, Vienna and Brussels, he became an Apostolic Delegate in Ancona in 1837 , which he remained until 1839. Appointed titular Archbishop of Thebes on February 18, 1839 , Cardinal Giacomo Filippo Fransoni donated him episcopal ordination on April 21, 1839 ; Co- consecrators were Giuseppe Maria Vespignani , Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops , and Ignazio Giovanni Cadolini , Secretary of the Congregation Propaganda Fide . From June 1839 to the end of April 1841 he worked as Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, and then from 1841 to 1844 to Turin as Nuncio. Raised cardinal in pectore on July 12, 1841 , he became a cardinal priest of Santa Pudenziana on January 22, 1844 . He took part in the conclave of 1846 , which Pius IX. elected to the Pope. On August 8, 1846, Cardinal Gizzi was appointed Cardinal Secretary of State, which he only remained until 1847.

He died in Lenola and was buried there in the choir of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore .

predecessor	Office	successor
Luigi Lambruschini	Cardinal Secretary of State 1846–1847	Gabriele Ferretti

personal data
SURNAME	Gizzi, Tommaso Pasquale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gizzi, Pasquale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, cardinal secretary of state
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ceccano
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1849
Place of death	Lenola