Luigi Pallotti (30 March 1829 – 31 July 1890) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked for a time in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and then in the

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. He was made a

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in 1887. He was the nephew of Saint

Vincent Pallotti Vincent Pallotti, SAC (21 April 1795 – 22 January 1850) was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic cleric and the founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, later known as the Pious Society of Missions (the Pallottines). The ori ...

(1795–1850), founder of the

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Biography

Luigi Pallotti was born in Albano in the

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on 30 March 1829. He studied at Collegio Romano and became secretary to Cardinal Karl August von Reisach. He participated in several diplomatic missions of the

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, among them as auditor in the nunciature in Spain in 1857, representing Pope Pius IX at the baptism of future

King Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII ( Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also ...

in 1886, and joining in the negotiations leading to the Spanish concordat of 1867. The date of his ordination is unknown. He was a junior staff member (''assegnatore dei posti'') at the

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named him secretary of the

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, where he served from 15 March 1877 to 16 November 1880, the first years of

Pope Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII (; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2March 181020July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of Peter the Ap ...

. He was Prefect of Studies at the Roman Seminary from 1879 to 1880. He was Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State and secretary of the cipher, beginning 16 November 1880. On 29 October 1882, he became Secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. On 31 July 1885, he was appointed auditor of the

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. Pope Leo made him a cardinal on 23 May 1887. He received his red biretta and was assigned the deaconry of Santa Maria ad Martyres on 26 May 1887. On 20 February 1889, Pope Leo named him Prefect of the

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. He died of a heart attack in Rome on 3 April 1893.

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