Pietro Fumasoni Biondi

The future Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi as Apostolic Delegate in the USA (1929)

Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi (born September 4, 1872 in Rome , Italy , † July 12, 1960 ibid) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Pietro Biondi Fumasoni studied in Rome the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology and received on 17 April in 1897 by Cardinal Vicar Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then taught at the Pontifical Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide and worked for the Curia as an employee of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide .

On November 14, 1916, Pope Benedict XV appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Doclea and apostolic delegate for the East Indies . He received his episcopal ordination on December 10th of the same year in the chapel of the Papal Athenaeum De Propganada Fide Domenico Cardinal Serafini OSB ; Co- consecrators were the bishops Joseph Armand Legrand and Agostino Zampini .

In 1919 he became an Apostolic Delegate in Japan . On June 14, 1921, he was called to Rome as secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith , and on December 14, 1922, he was appointed Apostolic Delegate to the United States .

In 1933 Pope Pius XI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in the college of cardinals and appointed him cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.

Pietro Fumasoni Biondi died on July 12, 1960 in Rome and was buried in the Campo Verano cemetery there.

Web links

• Fumasoni Biondi, Pietro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed March 31, 2017.
• Entry on Pietro Fumasoni Biondi on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on March 31, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelmus Marinus Cardinal von Rossum CSsR	Prefect of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide 1933–1958	Samuel Cardinal Stritch