Tommaso Pio Boggiani O.P.  (19 January 1863 - 26 February 1942) was a 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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 who served as Archbishop of Genoa

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Genoa

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Pio Boggiani was born in Boscomarengo, Alessandria

Alessandria

-Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...

, Italy

Italy

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. He joined the Dominicans

Dominican Order

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 on 15 September 1879. He changed his baptismal name from Pio to Tommaso. He was ordained and went to work as a missionary

Missionary

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 in Constantinople

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. He was elected Prior

Prior

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 of the Dominican convent at Ragusa

Ragusa, Italy

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 in 1891. He served as Pastor of the parish of S. Maria di Castello, Genoa

Genoa

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 in 1900 but was transferred to be a faculty member of the Seminary

Seminary

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 of Genoa. In 1908 he was appointed Apostolic administrator

Apostolic Administrator

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 of Adria

Adria

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Episcopate

Pope Pius X

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 appointed him bishop of Adria e Rovigo on 31 October 1908. He was consecrated on 22 November 1908 by Rafael Merry del Val, who was at that time Cardinal Secretary of State

Cardinal Secretary of State

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. He was transferred to be titular

Titular see

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 Archbishop

Archbishop

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 of Edessa di Osröene on 9 January 1912 and was named apostolic delegate to Mexico

Mexico

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 the next day. He was appointed Apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Genoa on 7 March 1914. He served as Secretary

Secretary

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 of the conclave of 1914

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 that elected Pope Benedict XV

Pope Benedict XV

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Cardinalate

Pope Benedict created him Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta

Santi Quirico e Giulitta

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in the consistory

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 of December 4, 1916. He was appointed Archbishop of Genoa on 10 March 1919. He resigned pastoral government of the archdiocese in 1921. He participated

Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 1922

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 in the conclave of 1922

Papal conclave, 1922

After a reign of just eight years, Pope Benedict XV died on 22 January 1922 of pneumonia. At his death there were 61 members of the College of Cardinals. However, later that same day, Enrique Almaraz y Santos, the Archbishop of Toledo, died, leaving a college of 60 cardinals to elect Pope...

 that elected Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI

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. He was elected to the order of Cardinal Bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina on July 15, 1929. He took part in the conclave of 1939

Papal conclave, 1939

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 that elected Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII

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. He died in 1942.