Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti

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Ermenegildo Cardinal Pellegrinetti (March 27, 1876—March 29, 1943) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Nuncio to Yugoslavia from 1922 to 1937, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1937.

Biography

Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti was born in Camaiore, and studied at the seminary in Lucca before going to Rome to study at the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Pontifical Roman Athenaeum "S. Apollinare", and Vatican School of Paleogrophy and Diplomacy.

He was ordained to the priesthood on September 24, 1898, and then did pastoral work in Lucca and taught at its seminary until 1917. Pellegrinetti served as a military chaplain during World War I, from 1917 to 1918, whence he was named secretary of the nunciature to Poland. From 1919 to 1922, he was auditor of the same nunciature. He was raised to the rank of a Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on July 29, 1919, and a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on February 22, 1922.

On May 24, 1922, Pellegrinetti was appointed Titular Archbishop of "Adana" by Pope Pius XI, and Nuncio to Yugoslavia a week later, on May 29. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 18 from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, with Archbishops Giovanni Maria Zonghi and Giovanni Volpi serving as co-consecrators, at the church of "S. Maria in Portico a Campitelli". Pellegrinetti later served as the papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Zagreb on July 30, 1930. He also negotiated a concordat between Yugoslavia and the Vatican that the Yugoslavian parliament did not to ratify, as it had provoked religious rioting for being so indulgent towards Catholicism [TIME Magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758477,00.html Five Red Hats] November 29, 1957] .

Pope Pius created him Cardinal Priest of "S. Lorenzo in Panisperna" in the consistory of December 13, 1937. Pellegrinetti was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.

The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 67. He is nuried in the collegiate church of his native Camaiore.

References

External links

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