Luigi Serafini (cardinal) explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Luigi Serafini
Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of the Council
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Appointed:31 July 1885
Term End:19 June 1893
Predecessor:Lorenzo Nina
Successor:Angelo di Pietro
Other Post:Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (1888–94)
Ordination:25 August 1853
Consecration:17 July 1870
Consecrated By:Costantino Patrizi Naro
Cardinal:12 March 1877
Created Cardinal By:Pope Pius IX
Rank:Cardinal-Priest (1877–88)
Cardinal-Bishop (1888–94)
Birth Name:Luigi Serafini
Birth Date:6 June 1808
Birth Place:Magliano Sabina, Papal States
Death Place:Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Buried:Campo Verano
Parents:Giuseppe Serafini
Anna Giorgi

Luigi Serafini (6 June 1808 – 1 February 1894) was a Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

He was born in Magliano Sabina in 1808, and ordained a priest in 1853. In 1870, he was ordained Bishop of Viterbo. In 1877, he was elevated to cardinal. He resigned as bishop of Viterbo in 1880. In 1884, he was appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. The following year, he was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council. He died in 1894, at the age of eighty-five.

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