Giovanni Soglia Ceroni

Giovanni Soglia Ceroni (10 October 1779 – 12 August 1856) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

Biography

He was ordained a priest on 1 January 1803. appointed him Titular Bishop of Ephesus on 2 October 1826 and ordained a bishop on 22 October.

On 23 June 1834 he was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Studies.

On 6 April 1835, he was named Titular Patriarch of Constantinople.

Pope Gregory XVI made him a cardinal in pectore on 12 February 1838 and then announced publicly that he was Cardinal Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati at a papal consistory held on 21 February 1839.[1]

He participated in the papal conclave of 1846 that elected Pope Pius IX.

He served as Secretary of State of the Holy See from 4 June 1848 until his resignation on 29 November of that year.[2]

He died on 2 August 1856.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rome". The Tablet. 24 September 1887. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. ↑ John Henry Newman, Letters and Diaries, vol. 32 (Thomas Nelson, 1961), p. 209.
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