Mario Mocenni

Styles of Mario Mocenni
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Sabina (suburbicarian)

Mario Mocenni (January 22, 1823—November 14, 1904) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who served both in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893.

Biography

Born in Montefiascone, Mario Mocenni was ordained to the subdiaconate on September 21, 1844, the diaconate on May 27, 1845, and the priesthood on December 20, 1845. He was later made a Privy Chamberlain supernumerary of His Holiness, and auditor of nunciature to Austria.

On July 24, 1877, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia by Pope Pius IX, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following August 12 from Cardinal Alessandro Franchi in Rome. Mocenni was later named Apostolic Delegate to Ecuador, Peru, Nueva Granada, Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua on August 14 of that same year. On March 28, 1882, he became Internuncio to the Empire of Brazil.

Seven months later, on October 18, 1882, Mocenni entered the service of the Roman Curia upon being appointed Substitute, or deputy, of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola in the consistory of January 16, 1893. He later opted to become a Cardinal Bishop, assuming the suburbicarian see of Sabina on May 18, 1894. As Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, he was also perpetual abbot of Farfa. Mocenni participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which selected Pope Pius X.

The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 81. After lying in state in the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, he was buried in the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide in the Campo Verano cemetery.

External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy

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Name	Mocenni, Mario
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Date of birth	1823
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Date of death	1904
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