Pietro Gasparri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri (* 5. May 1852 in Capovallazza di Ussita , Papal States , today province of Macerata , Italy ; † 18th November 1934 in Rome ) was Cardinal Secretary of State of the Roman Church .
Life
Pietro Gasparri studied philosophy and Catholic theology at various universities in Rome. He received on 31 May 1877, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a personal secretary to Cardinal Teodolfo Mertel as well as a professor of canon law in Rome and Paris . In 1896 he was a member of the Pontifical Commission to Investigate the Validity of Anglican Orders.
In 1898 Pope Leo XIII appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palestine and apostolic delegate for Peru , Ecuador and Bolivia . The episcopal ordination received Pietro Gasparri by Cardinal François Richard , the Archbishop of Paris ; Co- consecrators were Louis François Sueur , Archbishop of Avignon , and Charles Turinaz , Bishop of Nancy . In 1901 he became curial secretary for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, in 1904 secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Codification of Canon Law . In 1907 Pope Pius X accepted him into the College of Cardinals . As a cardinal priest he received the titular church of San Bernardo alle Terme , but in 1915 he changed the titular church as a cardinal priest and took over the title of San Lorenzo in Lucina . From May 1914 to January 1915 and from December 1916 until his death Pietro Gasparri held the office of Camerlengo . He took part in the conclave of 1914 and became Cardinal Secretary of State in the autumn of the same year. From 1914 to 1918 he also held the office of Prefect of the Apostolic Palace .
In 1917 Pope Benedict XV appointed him . following the publication of the new Codex Iuris Canonici as President of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Codex Iuris Canonici .
After the conclave of 1922 , the newly elected Pope Pius XI confirmed him . in his offices. In 1925 Pietro Gasparri was appointed Cardinal Prefect of the Curial Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. He became known to the general public as a signatory of the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy (represented by the fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ) on February 11, 1929, which ended the dispute between the Italian state and the Catholic Church that had been going on since 1870. In December 1929 Gasparri became President of the Cardinals' Commission in preparation for the codification of canon law of the Eastern Churches . He resigned as Cardinal Secretary of State in February 1930.
Pietro Gasparri died in Rome on November 18, 1934 and was buried in the Ussita cemetery.
literature
- Francesco Maria Taliani: Vita del Cardinale Pietro Gasparri, Segretario di Stato e povero prete. Milan 1938.
- Leone Fiorelli (ed.): Il Cardinale Pietro Gasparri. Rome 1960.
- Francesco Roberti: Il Cardinal Pietro Gasparri: L'uomo, il sacerdote, il diplomatico, il giurista. In: Apollinaris. Commentarius Instituti Utriusque Juris , ISSN 0392-2359 , vol. 33 (1960), pp. 5-43.
- Laura Pettinaroli, Massimiliano Valente (ed.): Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914–1930). Heidelberg 2020, doi: 10.17885 / heiup.631 .
Web links
- Gasparri, Pietro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed October 17, 2016.
- Entry on Pietro Gasparri on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on October 17, 2016.
- Literature by and about Pietro Gasparri in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Pietro Gasparri in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gasparri, Pietro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gasparri, Cardinal Pietro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian clergyman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Capovallazza di Ussita , Papal States |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1934 |
| Place of death | Rome |