Eugenio Tosi

Eugenio Tosi (May 6, 1864—January 7, 1929) was an Italian Cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1922 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922.

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Eugenio Tosi was born in Busto Arsizio, and studied at the seminaries of Monza and Milan. Ordained to the priesthood on June 4, 1887, he entered the Oblates of Ss. Charles and Ambrose in 1889, after serving as a vicar in Busto. Tosi then taught at the Missionary House of the Oblates in Rho until 1909, when he was made Vicar General of Rimini.

On April 5, 1911, Tosi was appointed Bishop of Squillace by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 16 from Andrea Cardinal Ferrari. After becoming Bishop of Andria on March 22, 1917, he served as Apostolic Administrator of Squillace from August 10, 1917 to February 1918.

Pope Pius XI named Tosi to succeed him as Archbishop of Milan on March 7, 1922, and created him Cardinal Priest of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti in the consistory of December 11 of that same year. He publicly denounced the playing of the opera The Martyrdom of San Sebastian, from which Catholics were prohibited from seeing, at La Scala in 1926^[1].

The Cardinal died after a long illness in Milan, at age 64^[2]. He is buried before the altar of the Virgo potens in the Milan Cathedral.

Preceded by Raffaele Morisciano	Bishop of Squillace 1911–1917	Succeeded by Giorgio Elli
Preceded by Giuseppe Staiti di Brancaleone	Bishop of Andria 1917–1922	Succeeded by Alessandro Macchi
Preceded by Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti	Archbishop of Milan 1922–1929	Succeeded by Alfredo Schuster, OSB