Mario Mocenni
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Sabina (suburbicarian) |
Mario Cardinal Mocenni (January 22, 1823—November 14, 1904) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as both a diplomat of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893.
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Born in Montefiascone, Mario Mocenni was ordained to the subdiaconate on September 21, 1844, the diaconate on May 27, 1845, and the priesthood on December 20, 1845. He was later made a Privy Chamberlain supernumerary of His Holiness, and auditor of nunciature to Austria.
On July 24, 1877, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia by Pope Pius IX, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following August 12 from Alessandro Cardinal Franchi in Rome. Mocenni was later named Apostolic Delegate to Ecuador, Peru, Nueva Granada, Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua on August 14 of that same year. On March 28, 1882, he became Internuncio to the Empire of Brazil.
Seven months later, on October 18, 1882, Mocenni entered the service of the Roman Curia upon being appointed Substitute, or deputy, of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Bartolomeo all'Isola in the consistory of January 16, 1893. He later opted to become a Cardinal Bishop, assuming the suburbicarian see of Sabina on May 18, 1894. As Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, he was also perpetual abbot of Farfa. Mocenni participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which selected Pope Pius X.
The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 81. After being exposed in the church of S. Maria in Traspontina, he was buried in the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide in the Campo di Verano cemetery.
