Sisto Riario Sforza

Sisto Riario Sforza ( born December 5, 1810 in Naples, † September 29, 1877 ) was an Italian cardinal and bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Sforza, who belonged to the noble houses Riario Sforza, and was born in Naples. He was the son of Giovanni Antonio Riario Sforza and Maria Gaetana Cattaneo della Volta.

Sforza visited the Pontifical Roman Seminary, the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy and the University La Sapienza in Rome. On April 23, it the degree of Doctor of Theology was conferred. He received the Habit on January 1, 1825 and his hair was for the first time on February 13, 1825 shorn for the tonsure. He received on 25 December 1826, the Low ordinations and was consecrated on 21 April 1832 as well as sub-deacon on September 1, 1833 in Naples by the Archbishop of Naples Filippo Giudice Caracciolo priest.

He worked for many years as Maestro di Casa dei Sacri Palazzi and took care of in the years 1865 and 1866 as treasurer of the Holy College of Cardinals to the finances of the College of Cardinals. He was also a canon of the Vatican Basilica and private secretary of the Pope in 1841.

As secretary of the memorials he accompanied in 1842 Gregory XVI. on his trip to Umbria and Rieti. He contributed to the conversion to the Roman Catholic faith of Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin. King Ferdinand II struck him on April 24, 1845 the Pope as Bishop of Aversa before.

He headed since November 24, 1845 to his death in the Archdiocese of Naples. On January 19, 1846 it took Gregory XVI. with a dispensation because his uncle was a cardinal, as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Sabina in the College of Cardinals to. He participated in the conclave of 1846.

Sforza was forcibly exiled to the collapse of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from September 1860 to July 1861 and from 1862 to 1866 and participated in the First Vatican Council, in which he spoke out against the dogma of papal infallibility.

He died on September 29, 1877 at the age of 66 years in Naples and was buried in the Maria Santissima Assunta Cathedral in Naples.

The process for his beatification began in 1927 in Naples. On June 28, 2012 Benedict XVI recognized. virtues to a heroic degree of Sisto Riario Sforza.

Leo XIII. said that he would not have been elected Pope, when Cardinal Sforza would still have been alive.

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