Giovanni Tacci Porcelli

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Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Nicaea (titular)

Giovanni Cardinal Tacci Porcelli (November 12, 1863—June 30, 1928) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for Oriental Churches from 1922 to 1927, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921.

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Giovanni Tacci Porcelli was born in Mogliano to Professor Luigi Tacci and his wife Maria Monti Guarnieri. He received Confirmation on December 22, 1871, and studied at the seminary in Tolentino, the Pontifical Roman Seminary (from where he obtained his doctorates in theology and canon law), and the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Ordained to the priesthood on September 19, 1886, Tacci then did pastoral work in Fermo and Rome until 1895, and was later raised to the rank of Domestic Chamberlain of His Holiness. He also served as Dean of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, a member of the Commission of Pontifical Schools, and an ecclesiasticus of several monasteries.

On March 18, 1895, Tacci was appointed Bishop of Città della Pieve by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 5 from Amilcare Cardinal Malagola, with Bishops Luigi Bonetti and Roberto Papiri serving as co-consecrators. Tacci was later named Apostolic Delegate to Constantinople, for Eastern-rite Catholics, and Patriarch Vicar for Latin-rite Catholics on December 19, 1904. After becoming Titular Archbishop of Nicaea on March 10, 1905, he was also made Nuncio to Belgium (December 31, 1907) and Internuncio to the Netherlands (March 18, 1911). Archbishop Tacci was appointed Prefect of the Pontifical Household on October 30, 1918.

Pope Benedict XV created him Cardinal Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere in the consistory of June 13, 1921. Tacci was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1922 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XI; erroneous reports from Rome claimed that Tacci himself had been elected by the Sacred College^[1]. He was named Secretary of the Congregation for Oriental Churches on August 8, 1922. In this position, Tacci was essentially the prefect of that dicastery, for the Pope served as the nominal head until 1967. He resigned his post in January 1927.

The Cardinal died in Rome at age 64, and is buried in the Campo di Verano cemetery.

Preceded by unknown	Bishop of Città della Pieve 1895–1904	Succeeded by Giuseppe Angelucci
Preceded by Antonio Vico	Nuncio to Begium 1907–1911	Succeeded by Achille Locatelli
Preceded by unknown	Nuncio to the Netherlands 1911–1918	Succeeded by Cesare Orsenigo
Preceded by Pietro Gasparri	Prefect of the Pontifical Household 1918–1921	Succeeded by Camillo Caccia-Dominioni
Preceded by Niccolò Marini	Secretary of the Congregation for Oriental Churches 1922–1927	Succeeded by Luigi Sincero