Pietro Respighi

Cardinal Pietro Respighi ( born September 22, 1843 in Bologna, † March 22, 1913 in Rome) was bishop of two dioceses in Italy and cardinal.

Life

Bishops donated his Confirmation on 25 November, 1850, the subdiaconate on 17 December 1864, and the diaconate on 23 December 1865. He attended the seminar in Bologna and the Roman Seminary Pius, where his Ph.D. Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Laws were awarded on 16 August 1870. After his ordination on March 31, 1866 in Rome, he worked from 1872 to June 1874 in the Archdiocese of Bologna as professor of the seminar. He was then pastor of the parish of Ss Gervasio e Protasio in Pieve di Budrio.

On December 14, 1891, he was appointed Bishop of Guastalla. He received his episcopal consecration of the cardinal chamberlain and Cardinal Vicar, Cardinal Lucido Maria Parocchi, on 20 December of the same year in Rome; Were co-consecrators Andrea Aiuti, secretary of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide, and Augusto Berlucca, Titular Bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia. The Pope raised him on November 30, 1896 Archbishop of Ferrara. Leo XIII. took him on 19 June 1899 as cardinal priest in the Sacred College, and he received on 22 June of the same year, the titular church of Santi Quattro Coronati. From his post as Archbishop of Ferrara, he resigned on 19 April 1900. He participated in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X, in part. He was buried in the cemetery Campo di Verano.