Camillo Laurenti

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His Most Reverend Eminence Camillo Cardinal Laurenti S.T.D. (20 November 1861 - 6 September 1938) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites.

Laurenti was born in Monte Porzio Catone, Italy. He was educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he earned doctorates in philosophy and theology.

He was ordained to the priesthood on 7 June 1884. He served as a staff member of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith from 1884 until 1887. He was created Privy chamberlain supranumerarius on 3 August 1889. He was professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum "De Propaganda Fide" from 1892 until 1908 and was on 20 October of that year appointed as undersecretary of the Congregation. He was appointed as Secretary of the Congregation on August 12, 1911. He served as a Consultor of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office on March 4, 1912.

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He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala in the consistory of June 21, 1921 by Pope Benedict XV. He participated in the conclave of 1922 that elected Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius appointed him Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Religious. Pope Pius appointed him Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in 1929. He opted for the order of cardinal priests and his deaconry was elevated pro hac vice to title in 1935. He died in 1938 and is buried at the Campo Verano cemetery.