Gabriele Ferretti Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Gabriele Ferretti
Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Appointed:18 March 1852
Term End:13 September 1860
Predecessor:Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli
Successor:Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo
Other Post:Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (1853–60)
Ordination:1 June 1817
Consecration:27 May 1827
Consecrated By:Carlo Odescalchi
Cardinal:30 November 1838
8 July 1839
Created Cardinal By:Pope Gregory XVI
Rank:Cardinal-Priest (1839–53)
Cardinal-Bishop (1853–60)
Birth Name:Gabriele Ferretti
Birth Date:31 January 1795
Birth Place:Ancona, Papal States
Death Place:Rome, Papal States
Buried:Santa Maria della Concezione
Parents:Liverotto Ferretti
Flavia Macinforte Sperelli

Gabriele Ferretti (pronounced as /it/; 31 January 1795 in Ancona – 13 September 1860 in Rome)[1] was an Italian Catholic cardinal and Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.

Personal life

He was born into nobility, the son of Palatine Count Liverotto Ferretti and Flavia Sperelli. By birth he was Count of Castelferretti, Palatine count and a noble of Rieti and Fermo. He was also a patrician of Ancona and San Marino. He was educated at the Collegio of Parma and the Collegio Tolomei in Siena, before entering the Seminary of Ancona and attending the Collegio Romano, where he earned a doctorate in theology.

Ecclesiastical service

Ferretti was ordained to the priesthood on 1 June 1817.

He was elected bishop of Rieti in 1827. In 1833, he was promoted to the titular see of Seleucia in Isauria and was appointed nuncio in Sicily in the same year. In 1837, he was transferred to the see of Montefiascone e Corneto and later that year was again transferred, this time to the metropolitan see of Fermo.

Cardinalate

Ferretti was elevated to cardinal (in pectore) in 1838 and was revealed as a cardinal in 1839.

He resigned pastoral government of his archdiocese in 1842 and was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Consulta of Indulgences and Relics in 1843. Ferretti participated in the Papal Conclave of 1846, which elected Pope Pius IX and in the same year was appointed legate in the provinces of Urbino and Pesaro.

In the years following, he was appointed to a number of senior positions in the Catholic Church including:

Death

Ferretti died on 13 September 1860 in Rome. His funeral was held on 17 September 1860. Pope Pius IX (whom he had helped to elect) participated in his funeral and he was buried, according to his will, in the Capuchin church of the Santissima Concezione in Rome.

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1838-iii.htm#Ferretti Florida International University