Carlo Cremonesi

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Carlo Cardinal Cremonesi (November 4, 1866—November 25, 1943) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Territorial Prelate of Pompei from 1926 to 1928, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935.

Biography

Carlo Cremonesi was born in Rome, and there studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary before being ordained to the priesthood on June 21, 1890. He then taught literature at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome until 1909. Once private secretary to Luigi Cardinal Galimberti, he was also a canon of the chapter of S. Angelo in Pescheria, and was raised to the rank of a Honorary Chamberlain on May 22, 1898. Cremonesi served as notary for the processes of the candidates to become Italian bishops, and later as Secretary of Pontifical Commission for Works of Religion from 1909 to 1921. He was made a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on September 9, 1910, and a cleric of the Apostolic Chamber on June 14, 1914.

On December 29, 1921, Cremonesi was appointed Privy Almoner of His Holiness and Titular Archbishop of "Nicomedia" by Pope Benedict XV. He received his episcopal consecration on January 8, 1922 from Pope Benedict himself, with Archbishop Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano and Bishop Agostino Zampini, OSA, serving as co-consecrators, in the Sistine Chapel. Cremonesi was later named Apostolic Delegate to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei on March 9, 1926, and the first Territorial Prelate of Pompei on March 21, 1926. He resigned the prelature in 1928, and described Benito Mussolini's fifty-five minute-long audience with Pope Pius XI in February 1932 as "very long". [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743216-2,00.html Catholic Action] February 22, 1932]

Pope Pius created Cremonesi Cardinal Priest of "S. Lorenzo in Lucina" in the consistory of December 16, 1935. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave that selected Pope Pius XII.

The Cardinal died in Rome from a heart attack, [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,850784,00.html Milestones] December 6, 1943] at age 77. He is buried in his titular church of "S. Lorenzo in Lucina".

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External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcremo.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-c.htm#Cremonesi Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]