Raffaele Mazio

Raffaele Mazio (born October 24, 1765 in Rome , † February 4, 1832 there ; also Raffaele Mazzio ) was Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Raffaele Mazio, whose father Giacomo, from Roveredo GR , also worked in the papal administration, studied theology at the Collegio Romano and was in 1791 by Pope Pius VI. appointed papal master of ceremonies. The new Pope Pius VII appointed him Secretary of the Congregation for Ceremonies in 1800 and bestowed on him the title of Papal Chamberlain. From 1801 to 1805 he worked for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Caprara as his chamberlain. During the French occupation of Rome, Mazio had to leave the city and was eventually imprisoned in Cento.

Mazio was only released in the spring of 1814 and was able to visit Pope Pius VII in Cesena. During the negotiations, including at the Congress of Vienna , he supported Cardinal Secretary of State Ercole Consalvi . In 1815 he finally returned to Rome and from 1816 worked on the Apostolic Penitentiary . Pius VII had already awarded him the title of papal house prelate in June 1815. In the following years he continued to work with Cardinal Consalvi and became secretary of the Consistorial Congregation and the College of Cardinals . He was also secretary to the conclave of 1823 .

Pope Leo XII. appointed him in December 1824 as assessor of the Roman and Universal Inquisition . In 1825 he also appointed Mazio Apostolic Protonotary.

Pope Pius VIII accepted him on March 15, 1830, as cardinal priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere in the college of cardinals. Nothing is known about his previous spiritual ordinations. He participated from 1830 to 1831 in the conclave that Gregory XVI. chose. The following year Cardinal Mazio succumbed to epilepsy. He was buried in his titular church, Santa Maria in Trastevere.

Web links

• Mazio, Raffaele. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed March 20, 2014.
• Entry on Raffaele Mazio on catholic-hierarchy.org