Raffaele Monaco La Valletta

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Raffaele Monaco La Valletta
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His Eminence
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SeeAlbano Ostia (
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Raffaele Monaco La Valletta

Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
.

Education

Raffaele Monaco La Valletta was born in

Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles
in 1846.

Priesthood

He was ordained in 1849. He was created

Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
from 1859.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme by Pope Pius IX in the consistory of 13 March 1868. He participated in the First Vatican Council from 1869-1870.

Episcopate

He was appointed

conclave of 1878 that elected Pope Leo XIII
.

On 21 December 1878 he ordained Giacomo della Chiesa, who was to become Pope Benedict XV, and on 20 December 1879 he ordained Ambrogio Achille Ratti, who succeeded Benedict XV as Pope Pius XI.

He was appointed

Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office
, guarding the orthodoxy of Church doctrine from 1884 until his death.

He was elected to the order of bishops and the

Sacred College of Cardinals. He died in 1896 in Agerola
.

References

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals

27 February 1880 – 13 May 1881
Succeeded by
Preceded by Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
12 February 1884 – 14 July 1896
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office

15 February 1884 – 14 July 1896
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano

24 March 1884 – 14 July 1896
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Archpriest of the Basilica of St. John Lateran

24 March 1884 – 14 July 1896
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals

24 May 1889 – 14 July 1896
Succeeded by