Cardinal Vannutelli (sitting) and Mgr. Bruchesi, 1910
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Vincenzo Cardinal Vannutelli (December 5, 1836 - July 9, 1930) was an Italian prelate, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church for over forty years. Image File history File links Vannutelli_and_Bruchesi. ... Image File history File links Vannutelli_and_Bruchesi. ... Cardinal Vannutelli (sitting) and Mgr. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... October 2, Charles Darwin returns from his voyage around the world. ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the College of Cardinals, ranking below the Pope and appointed by him during a consistory of the College. ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins and sees itself as the same Church founded by Jesus and maintained through Apostolic Succession from the Twelve Apostles. ...

Biography

He was born in Palestrina, Lazio, and was from the beginning of his life destined for a high position in the Catholic Church. He studied from almost the begnning at the most prestigious pontifical universities, the Collegium capranica and the Pontifical Gregorian University. Ordained a priest in 1860, he was never a pastor in his almost seventy years of priesthood: his career began as a faculty member in seminaries and continued in the Roman Curia. Most of his early career was in Roman and foreign postings of the Secretariat of State, aside from two years starting in 1878 when he was an Auditor of the Roman Rota. Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) was and is a very ancient city of Latium (modern Lazio) 23 miles (37 km) east of Rome, and was reached by the Via Praenestina (see below). ... Lazio (Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Marche, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Catholic deacon candidates prostrate before the altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles during a 2004 diaconate ordination liturgy Holy Orders in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, and Independent Catholic churches includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon. ... Roman Catholic priests in clerical clothing. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... The Roman Curia - usually (but simplistically) called the Vatican - is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See, coordinating and providing the necessary organisation for the correct functioning of the Catholic Church and the achievement of its goals. ... The Secretariat of State is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the government of the Roman Catholic Church. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Sacra Rota Romana or Sacred Roman Rota is the second highest tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

In 1880 he became a titular archbishop and Apostolic Delegate to the Ottoman Empire and the [[patriarch of Constantinople[[, and after further postings was named a cardinal in pectore in December 1889 and publicly announced in the consistory of 1890. His elevation, along with that of Pope Leo's older brother Giuseppe Pecci in 1879, was a special exception to a rule in effect since 1586 barring the elevation of anyone whose brother was in the College of Cardinals, as Vincenzo's brother Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli (1834-1915) had been elevated in 1887 and was still living. No further exceptions would be made until the time of Pope John XXIII. 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Bishop Richard Pates, current auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the Titular Bishop of Suacia. ... From the ancient Latin Nuntius, meaning any envoy. ... Motto: دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem: Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299-1326) Bursa (1326-1365) Edirne (1365-1453) Constantinople (Istanbul) (1453-1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 Osman I  - 1918–1922 Mehmed VI... In pectore (Latin for in the breast/heart) is a term used in the Roman Catholic Church to refer to the power of the pope to name secret cardinals whose names are not revealed and whose identities are therefore known only to the pope and to God. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... // Antiquity Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply sitting together, just as the Greek syn(h)edrion (from which the Biblical sanhedrin was a corruption). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... 1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Serafino Vannutelli (26 November 1834 - August 26, 1915) was an Italian Roman Catholic churchman, born at Genazzano, where he studied and graduated in philosophy before studying theology in the Capranica College, Rome. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: ), (Italian: Giovanni XXIII), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. ...

As a cardinal, Vincenzo Vannutelli became prefect of the Economy of Propaganda Fide in 1892 and held that position for ten years, during which he served the first of his many appointments as a papal legate - most notably to the 11th Annual Eucharistic Congress in Brussels in 1898. He became a Cardinal Bishop in the Holy Year of 1900, and served for the following decade and a half as the major lawyer along with Pietro Gasparri in the codification of canon law began by Pope Pius X in 1904 and completed thirteen years later. Vincenzo Vannutelli also served as prefect of the Commision for the Revision of the Provincial Councils from 1902 until 1908 - a commission designed to interpret past councils according to modern papal teaching. The headquarters of the Propaganda fide in Rome, housed by architects Borromini and Bernini: etching by Giuseppe Vasi, 1761 The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsibile for missionary work and related activities. ... Nickname: The Capital Of Europe, Comic City City of a 100 Museums Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Coordinates: Country Belgium Region Brussels-Capital Region Founded 979 Founded (Region) June 18, 1989 Mayor (Municipality) Freddy Thielemans Area    - City 162 (Region) km²  (62. ... Cardinal Bishops, or Cardinals of the Episcopal Order, are among the most important persons in the Roman Catholic Church. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... Pietro Cardinal Gasparri (May 5, 1852-November 18, 1934) was Roman Catholic archbishop, diplomat and politician in the Roman Curia. ... Canon law is the term used for the internal ecclesiastical law which governs various churches, most notably the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Anglican Communion of churches. ... Pope Saint Pius X ( Latin: ) (June 2, 1835 — August 20, 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903). ...

He served a papal legate to four more Eucharistic Congressess between 1907 and 1910, and in 1915 he succeeded his brother Serafino as Dean of the College of Cardinals, and in the 1925 Holy Year he served as Papal legate for the opening and closing of the holy doors at the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica, as he had in 1900. 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Dean of the College of Cardinals is the president of the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church and as such is always a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church of the episcopal order. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

When he died in 1930, he was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals, the last surviving cardinal elevated during the nineteenth century, and the second last surviving cardinal of Pope Leo XIII behind Lev Skrbensky z Hriste. Cardinal Lev von Skrbensky z Hriste (also spelt Skrebensky; born June 12, 1863, Hausdorf, Moravia, Austria-Hungary; died December 24, 1938, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia) was a prominent prelate in the Catholic Church during the early twentieth century. ...

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