Giovanni Lugari

Giovanni Battista Cardinal Lugari ( born February 18, 1846 in Rome, † July 31, 1914 ibid ) was cardinal.

Life

Lugari studied after visiting the Collegio Romano at the University La Sapienza and the Gregorian University Law and received his Juris Doctor utriusque. He worked for canonization process of the Congregation of Rites and belonged to the Collegio degli barristers concistoriali. With almost 50 years, he was ordained a priest on 15 January 1896.

He then worked in the service of the Roman Curia. His appointment as assessor and Subpromotor Fidei Congregation of Rites was on February 3, 1896. Appointed supernumerary secret chamberlain three days later, he was on June 4 promoter fidei. Leo XIII. appointed him on June 4, 1897 Honorary Prelate of His Holiness.

On March 28, 1900, he was appointed canon of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and the Lateran Basilica on 10 June. Papal Auditor he was on 22 April 1901, served as a promoter fidei in the canonization of Joan of Arc in the same year. He was appointed assessor of the Congregation of the Roman Inquisition, and general on 11 January 1902, on the following February 1 to the canons of St. Peter's Basilica.

He was apostolic prothonotary supernumerarium on February 2, 1902, later on 18 April of the same year consultant to the Congregation of Rites. For his many years of work in the Curia Pope Pius X took him on 27 November 1911 as cardinal deacon in the College of Cardinals, and he was on 30 November of the same year the title of Santa Maria in Portico diakonia in Campitelli. He was buried in the cemetery Campo di Verano.