Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco

Giuseppe Antonio Cardinal Ermenegildo Prisco ( born September 8, 1833 in Boscotrecase, Naples Province, Italy, † February 4, 1923 in Naples) was Archbishop of Naples.

Life

Study and teaching

After studying at the Archbishop's Seminary in Naples he received on September 20, 1856 Sacrament of Holy Orders. After that, he was until 1860 a professor of philosophy at the University of Naples, before he held the same job at the Archdiocesan seminary. From 1879 he taught moral philosophy at the inter-diocesan College of Tarsia. 1886 Prisco was a canon of the cathedral chapter of Naples. In the following years he served as representative activities for the Archbishop Guglielmo Sanfelice d' Acqua Villa.

Cardinal and Archbishop of Naples

Thus he fell Pope Leo XIII. on, who received him on 30 November 1896 as cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Cesareo in Palatio into the College of Cardinals. A few days later, he became a member of Sacred Congregation of Rites.

On March 24, 1898 Prisco was appointed Archbishop of Naples and recorded on the same day in the class of cardinal priest ( titular church of San Sisto ). He received his episcopal consecration by Pope Leo XIII. even in the Sistine Chapel. In 1899, Cardinal Prisco the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. He took after the death of Leo XIII. the conclave in 1903 in part. At the conclaves in 1914 and 1922, he was unable to attend for health reasons. He died a year later of a lung disease.

Works (selection)

• Saggio di filosofia (Naples 1855)
• San Anselmo e l' ontologismo (Naples 1857)
• Metafisica della morale (Naples 1865)
• Filosofia elementary (Naples 1892)