- Angelo Di Pietro
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cardinal name=Angelo Cardinal Di Pietro
dipstyle=His Eminence
offstyle=Your Eminence| See=Nisa in Lycia (titular see )|"His Most Reverend Eminence" Angelo Cardinal Di Pietro J.U.D. (22 May 1828 -5 December 1914 ) was a Cardinal of theRoman Catholic Church and was former Prefect of the Congregation of the Council.Angelo Di Pietro was born in
Vivaro Romano ,Tivoli . He was educated at theSeminary of Tivoli, andLa Sapienza University inRome where he earned a "doctorate utroque iuris" in 1858.Priesthood
He was ordained on
20 December 1851 in Tivoli. He served as secretary and pro-vicar general of thebishop of Tivoli ; vicar general of thediocese of Ostia and Velletri .Episcopate
He was appointed as
titular bishop of "Nisa in Lycia" and appointedsuffragan bishop of Velletri on25 June 1866 . He was promoted to the titular see of "Nazianzo" on28 December 1877 . He was appointed asApostolic delegate and extraordinary legate inParaguay andUruguay on18 January 1878 . He served asNuncio to theBrazilian Empire from 1879 until he was posted to be the Nuncio in Bavaria on21 March 1882 where he served until 1887 when he served as Nuncio in Spain.Cardinalate
He was created Cardinal-Priest of "
Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio " in theconsistory ofJanuary 16 1893 byPope Leo XIII . Pope Leo appointed him as Prefect of the Congregation of the Council on20 June 1893 . He opted for the title of "San Lorenzo in Lucina " on22 June 1903 . He participated in the conclave of 1903 that electedPope Pius X and 1914 that elected Pope Benedict XV. He died in 1914.
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