Filippo Giustini

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Secretary of the Congregation for the Sacraments (1908-14)
Alma materPontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare
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Filippo Giustini (8 May 1852 – 18 March 1920) was an Italian

cardinalate
in 1914.

Biography

Filippo Giustini was born in

priesthood
on 23 December 1876, and then taught at the Tivoli seminary until 1878.

From 1878 to 1896, he was

on 21 May 1891.

On 22 June 1892 he entered the service of the

Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
on the following 27 August.

On 24 October 1908 Giustini was appointed Secretary of the

of 25 May 1914.

Giustini was one of the

Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law, and as Protector of the Order of the Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. In 1919, Giustini served as papal legate to the centennial celebration of St. Stephen of Hungary in Capua, and to the Holy Land for the celebration of the seventh centennial of St. Francis of Assisi’s visit to Egypt and Palestine
.

Cardinal Giustini died from

Santa Maria Nuova, he was buried in the crypt of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide at the Campo Verano
cemetery.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Prefect of the Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments

1914–1920
Succeeded by