Augusto Silj

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See=Cesarea in Mauretania (titular see)|"His Most Reverend Eminence" Augusto Cardinal Silj J.U.D. (9 July 1846 - 27 February 1926) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.

Augusto Silji was born in Calcara di Visso, Italy. He entered the Seminary of Norcia and continued his education at the Pontifical Roman Seminary where he earned doctorates in philosophy and a "doctorate utroque iuris" (in both canon and civil law),

Priesthood

He was ordained on 4 April 1874. He did pastoral work in the diocese of Rome and was at the same time rector of the hospice "Dei Convertendi". He worked as a consultor for the Congregation for Bishops and Regulars and the Pontifical Commission for the Codification of Canon Law. He was created Domestic prelate of His Holiness on 7 July 1906.

Episcopate

He was appointed as titular archbishop of "Cesarea in Mauretania" by Pope Pius X on 26 December 1906. He was consecrated on 13 January 1907, by Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, Cardinal Secretary of State, assisted by Pietro Gasparri, titular archbishop of "Cesarea in Palestina", secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and by Ercolano Marini, bishop of Norcia. He was appointed as a consultor of the Congregation of the Council on 4 November 1908.

Cardinalate

He was created Cardinal-Priest of "Santa Cecilia in Trastevere" by Pope Benedict XV in the consistory of December 15 1919. Pope Benedict appointed him as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura on 20 March 1920, holding the post until his death. He participated in conclave of 1922 that elected Pope Pius XI. He died in 1926 and is buried at the Campo Verano di cemetery. He wished to be buried in Ussita, next to the baptismal font of the church of S. Andrea.