Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
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Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi (September 4, 1872—July 12, 1960) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in the Roman Curia from 1933 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933.
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Pietro Fumasoni Biondi was born in Rome to Filippo and Gertrude (née Roselli) Fumasoni Biondi. After studying at the Pontifical Roman Seminary, he was ordained to the priesthood by Lucido Cardinal Parocchi on April 17, 1897. From 1897 to 1916, he was a professor at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and then an official of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
On November 14, 1916, Biondi was appointed Apostolic Delegate to the East Indies and Titular Archbishop of Doclea. He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 10 from Domenico Cardinal Serafini, OSB, with Bishops Joseph Legrand, CSC, and Agostino Zampini, OSA, serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Urbaniana University. Biondi was later named Apostolic Delegate to Japan on December 6, 1919, Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith on June 14, 1921, and Apostolic Delegate to the United States on December 14, 1922.
Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme in the consistory of March 13, 1933, in advance for his appointment as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith three days later, on March 16. The Cardinal served as papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Teramo on August 20, 1935. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave, and again in the conclave of 1958.
Biondi died in Rome, at age 87. He is buried in the Campo di Verano cemetery.
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| Preceded by Ladislao Zaleski |
Apostolic Delegate to the East Indies 1916–1919 |
Succeeded by Pietro Pisani |
| Preceded by none |
Apostolic Delegate to Japan 1919–1921 |
Succeeded by Mario Giardini, B |
| Preceded by Camillo Laurenti |
Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith 1921–1922 |
Succeeded by Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani |
| Preceded by Giovanni Bonzano |
Apostolic Delegate to the United States 1922–1933 |
Succeeded by Amleto Cicognani |
| Preceded by Willem van Rossum |
Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith 1933–1960 |
Succeeded by Samuel Stritch |
