Filippo Camassei

Filippo Cardinal Camassei ( born September 14, 1848 in Rome, Italy, † January 18, 1921 Rome) was archbishop of Naxos and later Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Life

Filippo Camassei received his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, and received the sacrament of Holy Orders in 1872. He then worked for four years as a parish priest in Rome, before he became personal secretary to Cardinal Raffaele 1876 Monaco La Valletta. For many years he taught the young priest of the Diocese of Rome, 1889, he became rector of the Pontifical Athenaeum " De Propaganda Fide ". In 1897 he was awarded the honorary title of Pontifical domestic prelates.

1904 received by Filippo Camassei Cardinal Girolamo Gotti episcopal ordination. Pope Pius X appointed him in the same year as Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos and two years later, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. 1917 forced him to flee the Turks to Nazareth, where he took refuge with the Franciscans. After the victory of the English and French troops Filippo Camassei could return to Jerusalem in 1918. On December 15, 1919 it took Pope Benedict XV. on a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli in the College of Cardinals and his resignation from the office of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Filippo Camassei died during a visit to Rome on 18 January 1921 and was buried in the cemetery Campo Verano.

Weblink

• Entry to Filippo Camassei on catholic - hierarchy.org (English)
• Filippo Camassei, In: Salvador Miranda: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, online at fiu.edu, site of Florida International University (English)

• Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Cardinal ( 20th century)
• Roman Catholic theologian (19th Century )
• Roman Catholic theologian ( 20th century)
• Roman Catholic Bishop ( 20th Century)
• Grand Master ( Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem )
• Italian
• Born in 1848
• Died in 1921
• Man