Carlo Sacconi J.U.D. (9 May 1808 – 25 February 1889) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and

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. Carlo Sacconi was born in Montalto. He was educated at the

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and later at

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, Rome, where he earned a ''doctorate utriusque iuris'' (in both

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and civil law).

Priesthood

He was ordained and worked in the diocese of Montalto as a professor in its seminary in 1829 and pro-

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for the diocese. He worked with the Congregation of the Tridentine Council for three years. He served as Auditor in the nunciature to the

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in 1839 and chargé d'affaires ad interim in January 1844. He served as chargé d'affaires in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany from 1845 to 1847 and was

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to the

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from 1847-1851.

Episcopate

He was appointed

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on 27 May 1851 by Pope Pius IX and was named full nuncio to Bavaria on 6 June 1851.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of ''

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'' by Pope Pius in the

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of 27 September 1861. He was commissioned with the erection and organisation of the Latin American Seminary, Rome. He was appointed as Prefect of the economy of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide and of the Reverend Chamber of Despoilments on 29 August 1863. He participated in the First Vatican Council from 1869-1870. He opted for the order of bishops and the suburbicarian see of Palestrina on 8 October 1870. He participated in the

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that elected

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. He opted for the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina on 15 July 1878 and again changed his see to the

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of Ostia and Velletri, on becoming Dean of the Sacred

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on 24 March 1884. He served as

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from 1884 until his death.

Death and funeral

He died of

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on 25 February 1889 at 4:15 p.m. in the palace of the

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, Rome. The body was transferred to the basilica of Ss. XII Apostoli on 27 February at 11 a.m. The funeral took place in the same basilica on 4 March 1889 at 10 a.m.; the Mass, with twenty-three cardinals in attendance, was celebrated by Félix-Marie de Nekere, titular archbishop of Melitene; the final absolution was imparted by Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. The body was taken first to

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cemetery, Rome, and later to Montalto and buried in his family's tomb.

References

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