Bonaventura Cerretti

Cardinal Bonaventura Cerretti ( born June 17, 1872 in Comune de Bardono, Terni, Italy, † 8 May 1933 in Rome ) was a Vatican diplomat and later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Bonaventura Cerretti received by philosophical and theological study years in Spoleto and Rome on 31 March 1895, the sacrament of Holy Orders. From 1895 to 1899 he worked as a parish pastor in the diocese of Rome. In 1899 he entered the diplomatic service of the Vatican and first worked in the Vatican Secretariat of State. From 1904 to 1906, his first assignment abroad to Mexico, where he worked as secretary of the Apostolic Delegation led him. In the years 1906 to 1914, he held a number of duties at the Apostolic Delegation in the USA.

1914 received Bonaventura Cerretti by Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta episcopal ordination, and received the appointment of Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia and Apostolic Envoy to Australia and New Zealand. In 1917 he became secretary of the Curia for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. In 1919, he participated as a Papal envoy to the peace conference in Paris, 1921, he was Apostolic Nuncio to France. Pope Pius XI. took him a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Cecilia in 1925 to the College of Cardinals. Bonaventura Cerretti represented the Pope as the papal legate at the 29th International Eucharistic Congress in Sydney. In 1930 he received the appointment as the archpriest of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. 1931 appointed him to the Pope for the Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and on March 13, 1933, Cardinal Bishop of Velletri.

Bonaventura Cerretti died on 8 May 1933, Rome and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.