Francesco Salesio Della Volpe (24 December 1844 in

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- 5 November 1916 in

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) was an Italian Catholic

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. Florida International University website, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church section, ''Biographical Dictionary, Pope Leo XIII, Consistory of June 19, 1899''
/ref> He held the position of secretary of the Congregation of Indulgences and Relics and prefect of the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household. Created cardinal ''in pectore'' in 1899, Google Books website, ''Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary'', by Harris M Lentz III, page 59
/ref> he was named published in consistory of 1901. He was prefect of the Vatican Archives from 1908 and prefect of the Congregation of the Index from January 1911. California State University Northridge website, ''Sede Vacante 1914''
/ref> As

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, he announced the election of cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa to the papacy at the end of the

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of 1914; he crowned the new pope on September 6, 1914.

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