Pietro Respighi S.T.D.

Doctor of Sacred Theology

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 JUD

JUD

A Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, from the Latin doctor utriusque juris, or juris utriusque doctor, or doctor juris utriusque is a scholar who has acquired a doctorate in both civil law and church law...

 (22 September 1843 - 22 March 1913) was an Italian

Italy

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 Cardinal

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

 of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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 and Archpriest

Archpriest

An archpriest is a priest with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches, although it may be used in the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church instead of dean or vicar forane.In the 16th and 17th centuries, during...

 of the Basilica of St. John Lateran

Basilica of St. John Lateran

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.

He was born in Bologna

Bologna

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 and received the sacrament

Sacrament

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 of confirmation in November 1850. He was educated in the Seminary

Seminary

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 of Bologna, and the Pio Roman Seminary in Rome

Rome

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 earning doctorate

Doctorate

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s in theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

, civil and canon law

Canon law

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 in 1870. Ordained to the priesthood on the last day of March 1866 in Rome

Rome

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, he afterwards worked in the Archdiocese of Bologna

Archdiocese of Bologna

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 as professor

Professor

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 of its seminary from 1872 to June 1874. He was appointed as Archpriest of Ss. Gervasio e Protasio parish

Parish

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 until 1891.

Episcopate and Cardinalate

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903...

 appointed him Bishop of Guastalla on 14 December 1891. He was appointed to the see of Ferrara in 1896. As Archbishop of Ferrara he was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattri Coronati in the consistory

Consistory

-Antiquity:Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply 'sitting together', just as the Greek synedrion ....

 of 19 June 1899. He resigned pastoral government of the archdiocese of Ferrara on 19 April 1900. On the death of Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903...

 he participated in the conclave of 1903

Papal conclave, 1903

The Papal conclave of 1903 was caused by the death of the 93-year-old Pope Leo XIII, who at that stage was the third-longest reigning pope in history....

 that elected Pope Pius X

Pope Pius X

Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...

. He was Camerlengo

Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals

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 of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1906 until 1907, and in 1910 he was appointed Archpriest of the Patriarchal Lateran basilica

Basilica

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, a position he held until his death three years later.