Antonio Agliardi

Antonio Agliardi (4 September 1832 – 19 March 1915) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.


Antonio Agliardi
Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
The then-archbishop pictured sometime in the 1880s.
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Appointed29 June 1908
Term ended19 March 1915
PredecessorJean-Allarmet de Brogny
SuccessorOttavio Cagiano de Azevedo
Other posts
Orders
Ordination22 December 1855
Consecration12 October 1884
by Giovanni Simeoni
Created cardinal22 June 1896
by Pope Leo XIII
RankCardinal-Priest (1896–99)
Cardinal-Bishop (1899–1915)
Personal details
Birth nameAntonio Agliardi
Born4 September 1832
Cologno al Serio, Bergamo, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
Died19 March 1915(1915-03-19) (aged 82)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
ParentsDomenico Agliardi
Lidia Vimercati
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Alma materRoman Seminary
Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare
Coat of arms

Biography

Agliardi was born at Cologno al Serio, in what is now the Province of Bergamo.[1]

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain. On his return he was appointed secretary to the Congregation of the Propaganda.[1]

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.[1]

In 1887 he again visited India, to carry out the terms of the concordat arranged with Portugal. The same year he was appointed secretary of the Congregation super negotiis ecclesiae extraordinariis. In 1889 he became papal Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria at Munich and in 1892 at Vienna. Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.[1]

In the consistory of 1896 he was elevated to Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo. In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.[2] In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church,[1] and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

He died in Rome and was buried in Bergamo.[3]

Episcopal lineage

Agliardi's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:[4]

Notes

  1. Chisholm 1911, p. 377.
  2. Cheney, David M. "Antonio Cardinal Agliardi [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
  3. Chisholm 1922, p. 71.
  4. David M. Cheney, "Bishop Oscar Cantoni", Catholic Hierarchy, retrieved 2019-08-09

References

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
himself as Vice Chancellor
Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church
1908–1915
Succeeded by
Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo
Preceded by
None
Apostolic Delegate to the East Indies
23 Sep 1884  9 May 1887
Succeeded by
Andrea Aiuti
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