Giuseppe Antonio Sala Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Giuseppe Antonio Sala
Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Appointed:21 November 1834
Term End:23 June 1839
Predecessor:Carlo Odescalchi
Successor:Costantino Patrizi Naro
Cardinal:30 September 1831
Created Cardinal By:Pope Gregory XVI
Rank:Cardinal-Priest
Birth Name:Giuseppe Antonio Sala
Birth Date:27 October 1762
Birth Place:Rome, Papal States
Death Place:Rome, Papal States
Buried:Santa Maria della Pace
Parents:Giuseppe Antonio Maria Sala
Ana Sacchetti

Giuseppe Antonio Sala (27 October 1762 – 23 June 1839) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served in numerous high-profile positions in the Roman Curia.

Early life

Giuseppe Antonio Sala was born on 27 October 1762 in Rome to Giuseppe Antonio Maria Sala and Ana Sacchetti; he had six siblings. He was educated in philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and in theology at the Dominican faculty at the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, where he received a doctorate in theology in 1761.

Sala was the Secretary to the papal legation to France from 1801 to 1804, and was involved in the negotiations between the Holy See and the post-Revolutionary French Republic that resulted in the Concordat of 1801. He was also Secretary to the papal legation established by Pope Pius VII in 1809 during his exile from Rome. He was appointed the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs and of the Reform in 1814, as the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Rites and the Tridentine Council in December 1825.[1]

Cardinal

Sala was created a cardinal by Pope Gregory XVI in the consistory on September 30, 1831, and was given the titular church of Santa Maria della Pace on February 24, 1832. On March 21, 1834, he was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Index, and on November 21, 1834, he was named Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and Regulars. He was named the archpriest of Santa Maria Maggiore on 11 December 1838. Sala died on 23 June 1839 in Rome, and was interred in the church of Santa Maria della Pace.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Miranda. Salvador. Consistory of September 30, 1831. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180921230246/https://webdept.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1831.htm. September 21, 2018. December 16, 2018. Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University Libraries.