Pio Bighi

Pio Bighi (born September 5, 1780 in Rome , † August 31, 1854 ibid) was an Italian curial archbishop .

Life

Pio Bighi was ordained a priest on June 4, 1803 and was awarded a doctorate theologiae by the Collegio Romano in 1805 . As canon of Santa Maria in Via Lata , he was professor of moral theology at the Collegio Romano , later until 1840 rector of the seminary of Sant'Apollinare . Pio Bighi entered the service of the Curia on May 20, 1822 as consultor of the Apostolic Datarie and the Index Congregation . On June 3, 1824, he became consultor of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. In July 1847 he became a member of the theological college of Sapienza and examiner of the Roman clergy. In 1847 Pio Bighi was appointed papal house prelate and in 1831 apostolic protonotary .

Pope Pius IX appointed him on October 4, 1847 titular bishop of Lystra . He was ordained bishop on October 10th of the same year in the Basilica of Santi XII Apostoli Cardinal Antonio Francesco Orioli ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Giovanni Domenico Stefanelli OP and Mariano Venturi , Bishop of Veroli . On April 22, 1853, Pio Bighi was appointed Vicar of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and on August 23 of the same year was made titular Archbishop of Philippi .

Philippe Bountry: Officiers subalternes de la curie et consulteurs des congrégations romaines en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) (notes brèves) . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 99–100 (French, online edition [accessed January 1, 2019]).