Luigi Serafini (cardinal)
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Luigi Serafini | |
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Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of the Council | |
Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Appointed | 31 July 1885 |
Term ended | 19 June 1893 |
Predecessor | Lorenzo Nina |
Successor | Angelo di Pietro |
Other post(s) | Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (1888–94) |
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Orders | |
Ordination | 25 August 1853 |
Consecration | 17 July 1870 by Costantino Patrizi Naro |
Created cardinal | 12 March 1877 by Pope Pius IX |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest (1877–88) Cardinal-Bishop (1888–94) |
Personal details | |
Born | Luigi Serafini 6 June 1808 |
Died | 1 February 1894 Rome, Kingdom of Italy | (aged 85)
Buried | Campo Verano |
Parents | Giuseppe Serafini Anna Giorgi |
Alma mater | Collegio Romano La Sapienza University |
Luigi Serafini (6 June 1808 – 1 February 1894) was a Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
He was born in Magliano Sabina in 1808, and ordained a priest in 1853. In 1870, he was ordained Bishop of Viterbo. In 1877, he was elevated to cardinal. He resigned as bishop of Viterbo in 1880. In 1884, he was appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. The following year, he was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council. He died in 1894, at the age of eighty-five.