Benedetto Lorenzelli
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Benedetto Lorenzelli (11 May 1853 – 15 September 1915) was an Italian
cardinalate
in 1907.
Biography
Benedetto Lorenzelli was born in
priesthood on 1 April 1876, and then taught philosophy at the Pontifical Urban University
in Rome until 1884.
He was
Pontifical Academy "S. Tommaso", Lorenzelli served as an ablegatus to Vienna on 3 April 1884 and later received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Laval in Canada. He was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness in 1889, and became an attaché in the nunciature to Austria on 3 April that year. On 18 June 1890 he entered the Roman Curia as a referendary prelate of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature. He was made Internuncio to the Netherlands and Luxembourg on 30 May 1893 and a protonotary apostolic
on 10 June 1893.
On 1 October 1896 Lorenzelli was appointed
Archbishop of Lucca.[3]
He was created
SJ, and Michele Lega
.
As a proponent of Roman
neo-Thomism, he set up a teaching of Thomistic philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.[5]
The Cardinal died in Bucciano, at the age of 62, and is buried there.
References
- ^ Florida International University, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church website, Biographical Dictionary; Pope Pius X (1903-1914) Consistory of April 15, 1907 (III)
- ^ a b Catholic News Archive website, Cardinal Lorenzilli: No Hope Entertained for his recovery, article published in The Catholic Telegraph, Volume LXXXIV, Number 35, 2 September 1915
- ^ Borgo Bucciano website, Our History
- ^ California State University Northbridge website, Sede Vacente 1914
- ^ Treccani website, Benedetto Lorenzelli
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