Giuseppe Prisco

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Styles of Giuseppe Cardinal Prisco
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Naples

His Most Reverend Eminence Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Cardinal Prisco (8 September 1833 - 4 February 1923) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Naples.

Prisco was born in Boscotrecase, Italy. He was educated at the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Naples.

He was ordained to the priesthood in September 1856 with an indult because he had not yet reached the canoncial age. He served as Professor of philosophy at the seminary where he himself was taught. He later served as professor of rational law at Ospizio Ecclesiastico di Maria, Naples. He was also Prefect of studies at the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Naples and Examiner of the clergy. He was a representative of Archbishop Guglielmo Sanfelice D'Acquavilla before the Società Cattoliche Operaie.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon of S. Cesareo in Palatio by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of November 30, 1896. He opted for the order of cardinal priests and title of S. Sisto on March 24, 1898.

[edit] Episcopate

He was appointed as Archbishop of Naples on March 24, 1898 and was consecrated on May 29, 1898 in the Sistine Chapel by Pope Leo. He participated in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X. He did not participate in the conclaves of 1914 and 1922 because of poor health. He died at 7:15 p.m. on 4 February 1923 of pulmonary disease in Naples.