Serafino Cenci

Serafino Cardinal Cenci

Serafino Cenci (born May 20, 1676 in Rome , † June 24, 1740 ibid) was an Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Benevento and cardinal .

Life

He came from the old and highly respected Roman patrician family of the Cenci and was the third of the six children of Francesco Cenci and his wife Anna Giustina Ripa. Other cardinals from the same family were Tiberio Cenci (1580–1653), Baldassare Cenci (1647–1709) and Baldassare Cenci (1710–1763). After his first studies in Rome, he attended La Sapienza University under the famous lawyer Giuseppe Canuto . On May 14, 1701 Serafino Cenci completed his studies with a doctorate to Doctor iuris utriusque .

Serafino Cenci entered the service of the Curia on June 16, 1701 as a trainee lawyer at the Courts of Justice of the Apostolic Signature . He subsequently became a relator of the congregations for the administration of goods and the cathedral building hut of St. Peter . After a few more positions in offices of the Curia, Pope Innocent XIII. made him Nuncio in Naples , but Serafino Cenci declined the appointment for urgent personal reasons. In September 1724 he was appointed auditor of the Roman Rota and took up this office on March 21, 1725, he held it for ten years.

The ordinations Low received Serafino Cenci on 24 November 1726 and on 22 December of that year for sub-deacon ordained. On December 28, 1726, he received the deacons - and finally, on January 1, 1727, he was ordained a priest . After a few more posts in the curial administration, he became the reign of the Apostolic Penitentiary in September 1733 .

On December 18, 1733 Serafino Cenci was elected Archbishop of Benevento. The episcopal ordination donated him on December 26th of the same year Cardinal Vicar Giovanni Antonio Guadagni OCD ; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Tommaso Cervini and Antonio Maria Pallavicini . He received the pallium on January 20, 1734.

In the consistory of March 24, 1734 Pope Clement XII created him as a cardinal priest , the Pope sent him the red biretta in a papal letter dated March 30, 1734 by Serafino Cenci's nephew Baldassare Cenci, who later also became cardinal. He received the cardinal's hat and the titular church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura on June 27, 1735.

Serafino Cenci died during the conclave of 1740 , which elected Pope Benedict XIV a few months later , on June 24, 1740 after a long illness in Rome. Although his health had improved somewhat so that he could celebrate Holy Mass that morning , he was later found dead in his bed. He was buried in his titular church, Sant'Agnese fuori le mura .

Web links

• Cenci, Serafino. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 11, 2019.
• Entry on Serafino Cenci on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 11, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sinibaldo Doria	Archbishop of Benevento 1733–1740	Francesco Landi Pietra