Costantino Patrizi Naro

Costantino Patrizi Naro

Costantino Patrizi Naro JUD (4 September 1798 – 17 December 1876) was a long-serving Italian Cardinal who became Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Benedetto Naro was his great-uncle.

Biography

Born in Siena, Naro was educated in the Collegio dei Protonotari, at Rome. He studied for and was awarded a doctorate in utroque iure. He was ordained in 1819. He worked as a judge (auditor) of the Roman Rota.

He was appointed titular archbishop of Philippi on 15 December 1828 by Pope Leo XII. He was consecrated on 21 December by Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi, assisted by Lorenzo Mattei, and by Paolo Agosto Foscolo. He was appointed Nuncio to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on 16 January 1829. He remained in Tuscany until he was appointed as Prefect of the Apostolic Palace on 2 July 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI.

He was created cardinal, but only in pectore, in the consistory of 23 June 1834 and publicly proclaimed on 11 July 1836, becoming Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite. He was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars on 6 July 1839. He was archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, from 1845 to 1867. He participated in the conclave of 1846 that elected Pope Pius IX. He opted for the order of bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of Albano, on 20 April 1849. Pope Pius IX. appointed him as Secretary of the Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition in 1860. He served as Archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran basilica, from 1867 until his death. He also served as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1870 until his death in 1876.


Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Giovanni Marazzani Visconti
Prefect of the Apostolic Palace
2 July 18326 July 1839
Succeeded by
Pietro Gasparri
Preceded by
Giuseppe Sala
Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars
6 July 183922 December 1841
Succeeded by
Pietro Ostini
Preceded by
Luigi del Drago
Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
24 May 184521 September 1867
Succeeded by
Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe
Preceded by
Pietro Ostini
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
20 April 184917 December 1860
Succeeded by
Lodovico Altieri
Preceded by
Vincenzo Macchi
Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition
10 October 186017 December 1876
Succeeded by
Prospero Caterini
Preceded by
Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
17 December 18608 October 1870
Succeeded by
Luigi Amato di San Filippo e Sorso
Preceded by
Lodovico Altieri
Archpriest of the Basilica of St. John Lateran
21 September 186717 December 1876
Succeeded by
Flavio Chigi
Preceded by
Mario Mattei
Cardinal-bishop of Ostia
8 October 1870-17 December 1876
Succeeded by
Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso

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