Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella

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Alessandro Cardinal Sanminiatelli Zabarella (August 3, 1840—November 24, 1910) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Latin Patriarch of Constantinople from 1889 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1901.

Biography

Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella was born in Radicondoli to Count Ferdinando Sanminiatelli Zabarella and his wife Leopolda Pescatori di Peccioli. He studied at the Archiepiscopal College-Seminary of Pisa, and entered the "Almo Collegio Capranica" in Rome in 1857. From the Pontifical Roman Seminary he obtained his doctorates in philosophy (1860) and in theology (1864).

Zabarella was ordained to the priesthood by Cosimo Cardinal Corsi on September 6, 1863, and also attended "La Sapienza" University, earning his doctorate in canon law in 1866. From 1861 to 1868 he studied at the Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles, also in Rome. He was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain supernumerary in 1867, and Privy chamberlain "participantium" in 1868. He later became a canon of St. Peter's Basilica.

On July 31, 1874, Zabarella was appointed Grand Almoner of His Holiness and Titular Archbishop of "Tyana", receiving his episcopal consecration on the following August 14 from Pope Pius IX himself. He was later named President of the Vatican Judicial Commission on August 23, 1887, and Auditor-General of the Apostolic Chamber on November 29, 1887.

Pope Leo secretly, or "in pectore", elevated him to the College of Cardinals in the consistory of June 19, 1899, in advance for his appointment as Latin Patriarch of Constantinople three days later, on June 22. Zabarella was eventually published as Cardinal Deacon of "Ss. Marcellino e Pietro" on April 15, 1901. He served as Chamberlain of the Sacred College of Cardinals from June 22, 1903 to March 27, 1905, and participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which selected Pope Pius X.

The Cardinal died in Monte Castello, at the age of 70. He is buried in the Campo di Verano cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsamini.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1899.htm#Sanminiatelli Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]