Costantino Patrizi Naro
Costantino Patrizi Naro JUD (4 September 1798 – 17 December 1876) was a long-serving Italian Cardinal who became Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Benedetto Naro was his great-uncle.
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Dean of the College of Cardinals | |
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Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Appointed | 8 October 1870 |
Term ended | 17 December 1876 |
Predecessor | Mario Mattei |
Successor | Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso |
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Ordination | 16 June 1819 |
Consecration | 21 December 1828 by Carlo Odescalchi |
Created cardinal | 23 June 1834 (in pectore) 11 July 1836 (revealed) by Pope Gregory XVI |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest (1836–49) Cardinal-Bishop (1849–76) |
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Birth name | Costantino Patrizi Naro |
Born | 4 September 1798 Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Died | 17 December 1876 78) Rome, Kingdom of Italy | (aged
Buried | Basilica of Saint John Lateran (since 1902) |
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Biography
Born in Siena, Naro was educated in the Collegio dei Protonotari, at Rome. He studied for and was awarded a doctorate in utroque iure. He was ordained in 1819. He worked as a judge (auditor) of the Roman Rota.
He was appointed titular archbishop of Philippi on 15 December 1828 by Pope Leo XII. He was consecrated on 21 December by Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi, assisted by Lorenzo Mattei, and by Paolo Agosto Foscolo. He was appointed Nuncio to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on 16 January 1829. He remained in Tuscany until he was appointed as Prefect of the Apostolic Palace on 2 July 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI.
He was created cardinal, but only in pectore, in the consistory of 23 June 1834 and publicly proclaimed on 11 July 1836, becoming Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite. He was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars on 6 July 1839. He was archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, from 1845 to 1867. He participated in the conclave of 1846 that elected Pope Pius IX. He opted for the order of bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of Albano, on 20 April 1849. Pope Pius IX. appointed him as Secretary of the Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition in 1860. He served as Archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran basilica, from 1867 until his death. He also served as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1870 until his death in 1876.
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Preceded by Giovanni Marazzani Visconti |
Prefect of the Apostolic Palace 2 July 1832 – 6 July 1839 |
Succeeded by Pietro Gasparri |
Preceded by Giuseppe Sala |
Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars 6 July 1839 – 22 December 1841 |
Succeeded by Pietro Ostini |
Preceded by Luigi del Drago |
Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 24 May 1845 – 21 September 1867 |
Succeeded by Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe |
Preceded by Pietro Ostini |
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano 20 April 1849 – 17 December 1860 |
Succeeded by Lodovico Altieri |
Preceded by Vincenzo Macchi |
Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition 10 October 1860 – 17 December 1876 |
Succeeded by Prospero Caterini |
Preceded by Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti |
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina 17 December 1860 – 8 October 1870 |
Succeeded by Luigi Amato di San Filippo e Sorso |
Preceded by Lodovico Altieri |
Archpriest of the Basilica of St. John Lateran 21 September 1867 – 17 December 1876 |
Succeeded by Flavio Chigi |
Preceded by Mario Mattei |
Cardinal-Bishop of Osta e Velletri and Dean of the College of Cardinals 8 October 1870 – 17 December 1876 |
Succeeded by Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso |