Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei

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Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei (born March 23, 1811 in Recanati , † April 21, 1883 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople and Cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Ruggero Antici Mattei was the son of Carlo Teodoro Antici, Marchese and Baron of Pescia, and his wife Anna Maria Mattei. Cardinal Girolamo Mattei (1547–1603) came from his mother's family . Antici Mattei studied at the Collegio Nazareno and the Collegio Romano in Rome from 1826 to 1832 . He received minor orders on September 8, 1831 , and was ordained a subdeacon on February 2, 1834 . On March 25, 1834, he received the deacon and on September 7, 1834 in Rome the priestly ordination . He became an examiner for the clergy at the Vatican Basilica and curate at Forlimpopoli Abbey . He was subsequently papal house prelate , canon of the chapter of the Lateran basilica , canon of the chapter of the Vatican basilica and later its dean . From 1843 to 1847 he was a judge at the Dombauhütte of St. Peter . From 1850 to 1875 he was secretary of the Consistorial Congregation , and from 1851 he was also assigned to the Council Congregation .

On January 8, 1866, Ruggero Antici Mattei was appointed Latin (titular) Patriarch of Constantinople. He was ordained bishop on February 25, 1866 in St. Peter's Basilica by the Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina and Subdean of the College of Cardinals , Costantino Patrizi Naro ; Co - consecrators were Gustav Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , almsman of His Holiness , and Archbishop ad personam Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi , Bishop of Osimo and Cingoli . Patriarch Antici Mattei took part in the First Vatican Council (1869-1870).

Pope Pius IX appointed Ruggero Antici Mattei in the consistory of March 15, 1875 cardinal in pectore . On March 31, 1875 he was appointed Auditor General of the Apostolic Chamber . After his elevation to cardinal was announced on September 17, 1875, he received San Lorenzo in Panisperna as the titular church on January 28, 1876 , the cardinal's hat he received on March 15, 1877. As cardinal he was a participant in the conclave of 1878 , from which Leo XIII. emerged as Pope.

Ruggero Luigi Emidio Antici Mattei died in Rome on April 21, 1883. He was laid out in the church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria and buried in the Roman cemetery of Campo Verano .

Remarks

  1. ↑ One of the tasks of the Dombauhütte of St. Peter has always been to maintain order in St. Peter's Basilica, cf. Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus , Art. 192.

literature

  • Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals: 1846–2012. Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-026947-5 , p. 93.

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predecessor Office successor
Josephus Melchiades Ferlisi Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
1866–1878 		Jacobus Gallo
personal data
SURNAME Antici Mattei, Ruggero Luigi Emidio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople and Cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Recanati
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1883
Place of death Rome