Enrico Gasparri

Enrico Cardinal Gasparri S.T.D. JUD (25 July 1871-20 May 1946) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop. Pietro Cardinal Gasparri was his uncle, who in 1929 signed the Lateran Pacts.

Enrico was ordained on 10 August 1894 at the age of 23. He studied in Rome receiving degrees in theology and philosophy and worked in Rome in a pastoral role from 1894 until 1898. Pope Benedict XV appointed him Titular Archbishop of "Sebastea" on 9 December 1915, that same day he was sent to Colombia as Apostolic Delegate. On 20 July 1917 he was chosen to become the Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia with full dipolmatic rights. On 1 September 1920 Pope Benedict chose him as Nuncio to Brazil.

He returned to Rome where on 14 December 1925 he was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of "S. Bartolomeo all'Isola" at the age of 54. His creation was an exception made to the Code of Canon Law that forbade anyone having a relative in the Sacred College of Cardinals.

On the 18 May 1933 Pope Pius XI appointed him as Prefect of Apostolic Signatura. On the 16 October 1933 Cardinal Gasparri was eleveted to Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri. He was one of the cardinal electors in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.

He died on 20 May 1946 at the age of 74.