Costantino Patrizi Naro

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

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

[edit] Episcopate

He was appointed titular archbishop of Filippi on 15 December 1828 by Pope Leo XII. He was consecrated on 21 December by Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi assisted by Lorenzo Mattei, and by Paolo Agosto Foscolo. He was appointed as Nuncio in 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.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created cardinal and reserved 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 as 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 Gregory 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.


Preceded by
Giovanni Marazzani Visconti		 Prefect of the Apostolic Palace
2 July 1832–6 July 1839		 Succeeded by
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri
Preceded by
Giuseppe Cardinal Sala		 Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars
6 July 1839–22 December 1841		 Succeeded by
Pietro Cardinal Ostini
Preceded by
Luigi Cardinal del Drago		 Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
24 May 1845–21 September 1867		 Succeeded by
Gustav Cardinal von Hohenlouhe-Schillingsfürt
Preceded by
Pietro Cardinal Ostini		 Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
20 April 1849–1860		 Succeeded by
Lodovico Cardinal Altieri
Preceded by
Vincenzo Cardinal Macchi		 Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition
10 October 1860–17 December 1876		 Succeeded by
Antonio Maria Cardinal Panebianco
Preceded by
Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti		 Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
1860–1870		 Succeeded by
Luigi Amato di San Filippo e Sorso
Preceded by
Lodovico Cardinal Altieri		 Archpriest of the Basilica of St. John Lateran
21 September 1867–17 December 1876		 Succeeded by
Flavio Cardinal Chigi
v • d • e
Dean of the College of Cardinals
R. d'Elci (1670–1761) (1737, 1755) • G. Spinelli (1694–1763) (1735, 1761) • C. Cavalchini (1683–1774) (1743, 1763) • G. Albani (1720–1803) (1747, 1774) • H. Stuart (1725–1807) (1747, 1803) • L. Antonelli (1730–1811) (1775, 1807) •
A. Mattei (1744–1820) (1779, 1814) • G. della Somaglia (1744–1830) (1795, 1820) • B. Pacca (1756–1844) (1801, 1830) • L. Micara (1775–1847) (1824, 1844) • V. Macchi (1770–1860) (1826, 1847) • M. Mattei (1792–1870) (1832, 1860) •
C. Naro (1798–1876) (1834, 1870) • L. di San Filippo e Sorso (1796–1878) (1837, 1876) • C. di Pietro (1878-1884) • C. Sacconi (1884-1889) • R. Monaco La Valetta (1889-1896) • L. Oreglia di Santo Stefano (1896–1913) • S. Vannutelli (1913-1915) • V. Vannutelli (1915-1930) • G. Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte (1930-1948) • F. Marchetti-Selvaggiani (1948-1951) • E. Tisserant (1951-1972) • A. G. Cicognani (1972-1973) • L. Traglia (1974-1977) • C. Confalonieri (1977-1986) • A. Rossi (1986-1993) • B. Gantin (1993-2002) • J. Ratzinger (2002-2005) • A. Sodano (2005-)

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Preceded by
Mario Mattei		 Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
1870–1876		 Succeeded by
Camillo di Pietro