Costantino Patrizi Naro Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Costantino Patrizi Naro
Dean of the College of Cardinals
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Appointed:8 October 1870
Term End:17 December 1876
Predecessor:Mario Mattei
Successor:Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso
Ordination:16 June 1819 by Carlo Odescalchi
Consecration:21 December 1828
Consecrated By:Carlo Odescalchi
Cardinal:23 June 1834
11 July 1836
Created Cardinal By:Pope Gregory XVI
Rank:Cardinal-Priest (1836–49)
Cardinal-Bishop (1849–76)
Birth Name:Costantino Patrizi Naro
Birth Date:4 September 1798
Birth Place:Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Death Place:Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Parents:Marquis Giovanni Patrizi-Naro and Cunegunda von der Lausitz

Costantino Patrizi Naro JUD (4 September 1798 – 17 December 1876) was a long-serving Italian Cardinal who became Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Benedetto Naro was his great-uncle.

Biography

Born in Siena, Naro was educated in the Collegio dei Protonotari, at Rome. He studied for and was awarded a doctorate in utroque iure. He was ordained in 1819. He worked as a judge (auditor) of the Roman Rota.

He was appointed titular archbishop of Philippi on 15 December 1828 by Pope Leo XII. He was consecrated on 21 December by Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi, assisted by Lorenzo Mattei, and by Paolo Agosto Foscolo. He was appointed Nuncio to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on 16 January 1829. He remained in Tuscany until he was appointed as Prefect of the Apostolic Palace on 2 July 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI.

He was created cardinal, but only in pectore, in the consistory of 23 June 1834 and publicly proclaimed on 11 July 1836, becoming Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite. He was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars on 6 July 1839. He was archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, from 1845 to 1867. He participated in the conclave of 1846 that elected Pope Pius IX. He opted for the order of bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of Albano, on 20 April 1849. In 1858 he and King Ferdinand II reiterated a petition to the Pope for the authorization of the worship of the Seven Archangels.[1] Pope Pius IX. appointed him as Secretary of the Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition in 1860. He served as Archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran basilica, from 1867 until his death. He also served as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1870 until his death in 1876.

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  1. Book: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Worship of Planetary Spirits is idolatrous Astrolatry: Divine Astrology is for Initiates; superstitious Astrolatry for the masses.. 15. Philaletheians UK. May 10, 2021. Again, in 1858, Cardinal Patrizi and King Ferdinand II in the name of all the people of Italy reiterated their petition... . See also Internet Archive versione (p. 32)