Giovanni Simeoni
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Giovanni Simeoni | |
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Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith | |
Chalcedon (titular) | |
In office | 1878–1892 |
Other post(s) |
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Orders | |
Ordination | 1839 |
Consecration | April 4, 1875 by Alessandro Franchi |
Created cardinal | March 15, 1875 (in pectore) September 17, 1875 (elevated) by Pope Pius IX |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli |
Personal details | |
Born | Paliano, Italy | July 12, 1816
Died | January 14, 1892 Rome | (aged 75)
Buried | Pontifical Urban Athenaeum Chapel, Campo Verano |
Giovanni Simeoni (July 12, 1816 – January 14, 1892) was an Italian prelate of the
cardinal in 1875 and served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
from 1878 until his death in 1892.
Biography
Giovanni Simeoni was born in
canon law
. The Colonna family subsidized his studies.
Simeoni was
Pontifical Urban Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide. After being raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness, he was made auditor of the nunciature to Spain and Domestic Prelate of His Holiness (1857). Simeoni later became adiutor ab actis of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, and served as the Congregation's secretary
from 1868 to 1875.
On March 5, 1875, Simeoni was appointed
episcopal consecration on the following April 4 from Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, with Archbishops Edward Henry Howard and Pietro Villanova Castellacci serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel
of the Pontifical Urban Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide.
Simeoni was published as
will
as well.
The Cardinal then participated in the
Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
.
During his tenure as the head of the Catholic Church's global missionary network, Cardinal Simeoni became very important to the history of
emancipated slaves since the last Council. [He] also proposed a special collection in parishes that would benefit missions to Blacks in America."[1]
This is also why newly ordained
African-American priest Fr. Augustus Tolton was reassigned in 1886 from his original plans to be a missionary in Africa to instead travel from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome to instead serve as a Catholic missionary to the Black community in the United States. Cardinal Simeoni famously quipped, while issuing the orders in a document that still survives in the Vatican archives, "America has been called the most enlightened nation. We will see if it deserves the honor. If America has never seen a Negro priest, it will see one now."[2]
Cardinal Simeoni died in Rome, at the age of 75. After lying in state in the church of the Pontifical Urban Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide, he was buried in the chapel of the same athenaeum in the Campo Verano cemetery. Simeoni also left his notable art collection to the Pope in his will.
Episcopal lineage
Simeoni's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:[3]
- Cardinal Scipione Rebiba
- Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santorio
- Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale
- Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi
- Cardinal Luigi Caetani
- Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna
- Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
- Pope Benedict XIII
- Pope Benedict XIV
- Cardinal Enrico Enríquez
- Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz
- Cardinal Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola
- Cardinal Giuseppe Doria Pamphili
- Pope Pius VIII
- Pope Pius IX
- Cardinal Alessandro Franchi
- Cardinal Giovanni Simeoni
References
- Liturgical Press. Page 19.
- Liturgical Press. Page 34.
- ^ "Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-04-18.