Giulio Serafini

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cardinal name=Giulio Cardinal Serafini
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See=Lampsaco (titular see)|"His Most Reverend Eminence" Giulio Cardinal Serafini J.U.D. (12 October 1867 - 16 July 1938) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former President of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of Code of Canon Law.

Serafini was born in Bolsena, Italy. He was educated at the Minor Seminary of Orvieto, and the Roman-Pio Seminary, Rome where he earned a "doctorate utroque iuris" (in both canon and civil law). He was ordained a priest on 6 April 1890. He served as a faculty member of the Seminary of Orvieto from 1895 until 1901 and was its rector from 1897 until 1901. He was created Privy chamberlain of His Holiness on 7 January 1904.

Episcopate

Pope Pius X appointed him Bishop of Pescia on March 4 1907. He was consecrated on May 26 1907 by Pietro Cardinal Respighi, vicar general of Rome. He was transferred to the titular see of "Lampsaco" before taking possession of the diocese of Pescia in December 1907.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon of "Santa Maria sopra Minerva" by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of June 30 1930. On 3 July 1930 he was named President of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of Code of Canon Law, a position he held until his death in 1938. He his buried in the church of S. Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.