Giovanni Soglia Ceroni
Italian cardinal
- Titular Archbishop of Ephesus (1826–35)
- Patriarch of Constantinople (1835–39)
- Secretary of State (1848)
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Giovanni Soglia Ceroni (10 October 1779 – 12 August 1856) was an Italian cardinal 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
- ^ a b "Rome". The Tablet. 24 September 1887. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- ^ John Henry Newman, Letters and Diaries, vol. 32 (Thomas Nelson, 1961), p. 209.
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