Raffaele Monaco La Valletta

Raffaele Monaco La Valletta ( born February 23, 1827 in L' Aquila, Italy, † July 14, 1896 In Neapolitan Riviera, Naples Province ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

He studied in Rome and earned a doctorate in 1846 for theology, canon law and civil law. For He was ordained priest in 1849 and worked as a prelate and lecturer in the then Congregation for the enforcement and interpretation of the decisions of the Tridentine church assembly as well as for detection via decrees of provincial synods ( Congregation cardinalium Concilii Tridentine interpretum; Today: Congregation for the Clergy ).

The office of assessor in the Congregation of the Roman Inquisition and generally with simultaneous appointment as canon, he took over early 1859 and it held until 1868.

In the consistory in 1868 Raffaele Monaco La Valletta was taken as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in the College of Cardinals. On January 12, 1874, he is by Pope Pius IX. consecrated titular bishop of the Diocese of Heraclea in Europe. From 1876 to 1884, he is the Cardinal Vicar of the Diocese of Rome.

In 1878 he took part in the conclave to choose from Pope Leo XIII .. 1884 Monaco La Valetta by this a Cardinal Bishop of Albano brought him to the Pope in 1889 transferred the office of Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri. From 1884 to 1889 he was secretary of the Congregation for the Holy Roman Inquisition and universi elle ( Congregation Romanae et universalis Inquisitionis, today's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ), and was appointed in 1889 to Cardinal Bishop of Ostia. With this appointment, he then took over the management of the former Congregation for ceremonies until his death in 1896. At the same time the Cardinal was Kardinalgroßpönitentiar since 1884 until his death. Raffaele Monaco La Valletta was Honour and Devotion Grand Cross - Bailli of the Sovereign Order of Malta and 1894-1896 Grand Prior of the Grand Priory of Rome, the Order of Malta.