Domenico Cardinal Serafini
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. was the
Prefect of
Propagation of the Faith and
Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia.
Domenico
Cardinal Serafini was born in
Rome,
Italy, on
August 3 1852, of a
noble family. (
Marchese Camillo Serafini, who would became the first - and last -
Governor of the Vatican State belonged to the same family). Domenico Serafini was ordained
Priest of the
Order of Saint Benedict on
21 Oct 1877 at 25 years of age. He became the
Abbot of
Subiaco, Italy on
5 Jun 1896, at 43. Subsequently, he was appointed
Archbishop of Spoleto (
Umbria), Italy on
16 April 1900 and ordained
Bishop on
May 16, 1900. In Jan
1904, at 51 years of age,
Archbishop Serafini was appointed
Apostolic Delegate to
México and, in
1914, he was created
Cardinal and appointed Cardinal-Priest of
Saint Cecilia. In January
1916, he was appointed
Prefect of
Affairs of Religious of the Roman Curia and then, Prefect of
Propagation of the Faith.
Archbishop Serafini died on
5 March 1918 at 65 years of age, while holding the post of Prefect of Propagation of the Faith of the
Roman Curia.
In the
Conclave of
1914 which was summoned after
Pope Pius X died in the
Vatican, on
August 20, 1914, Cardinal
Giacomo della Chiesa,
archbishop of
Bologna, Italy, was elected on
September 3, 1914, on the tenth
ballot, held on the third day, and took the name
Benedict XV. Cardinal Serafini was della Chiesa's stronger contender, then.
* Principal Consecrator: Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli
* Principal Co-Consecrators:Casimiro Cardinal Gennari and Archbishop Tommaso Granello †
Episcopal Lineage/Apostolic Succession:
* Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. (1900)
*
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli (1869)
* Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro (1828)
* Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. (1823)
* Giulio Maria
Cardinal della Somaglia (1788)
* Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. (1777)
*
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (1762)
* Pope
Carlo della Torre Rezzonico (1743)
* Pope
Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (1724)
*
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. (1675)
* Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni (1666)
* Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna (1630)
* Luigi Cardinal Caetani (1622)
* Ludovico Cardinal
Ludovisi (1621)
* Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale (1604)
* Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. (1586)
* Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio (1566)
* Scipione
Cardinal Rebiba Cardinal Serafini was the principal Consecrator or Co-Consecrator of:
* Bishop Amand-Théophile-Joseph Legrand, C.S.C.
* Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi
* Abbot Fulgencio Torres, O.S.B.
