Domenico Svampa

Domenico Cardinal Svampa ( born June 13, 1851 in Montegranaro, Italy, † 10 August 1907 in Bologna) was Archbishop of Bologna.

Life

Svampa studied theology in Fermo and Rome, and received on 4 April 1874, the ordination. He was Socius of the Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and from 1879 professor of theology in the Archdiocese of Fermo.

Pope Leo XIII. appointed him on 23 May 1887 Bishop of Forlì. He received his episcopal consecration on 29 June of the same year Cardinal Giovanni Simeoni. Co-consecrators were Domenico Maria and Antonio Maria Jacobini Grasselli. Svampa modernized, among other things teaching in seminaries and promoted charitable initiatives. Liberals are juxtaposed Svampa was open.

In the consistory of May 18, 1894 Leo XIII took. Svampa as Cardinal Priest of S. Onofrio in the College of Cardinals to. Just three days later he appointed him Archbishop of Bologna. After the death of Leo XIII. he took part in the conclave in 1903, the Pius X chose. A few years before the death of the Pope, he was considered papabile.

After Cardinal Svampa suffered a stroke in 1901, his health deteriorated in the following years. He died in 1907 at the age of only 56 years.