Alessandro Cardinal Franchi †

Deceased

Secretary of State

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jun 1819		Born
18 Dec 1841	22.4	Ordained Deacon	Deacon
16 Mar 1842	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
16 Jun 1856	36.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Florence (Tuscany), Italy
19 Jun 1856	36.9	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
6 Jul 1856	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
5 May 1859	39.8	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Florence (Tuscany), Italy
31 Oct 1860	41.3	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs
13 Mar 1868	48.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain
Jun 1869³	49.9	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain
22 Dec 1873	54.4	Elevated to Cardinal
16 Jan 1874	54.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
10 Mar 1874	54.7	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
5 Mar 1878	58.6	Appointed	Secretary of State
31 Jul 1878	59.0	Died	Secretary of State

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Alessandro Franchi
(VIAF: 40136558; WikiData: Q647382)
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi (born 25 Jun 1819, died 31 Jul 1878) Secretary of State

First Vatican Council: Council Father
Consistory - 1873: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1878: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Apostolic Palace of the Quirinale, Pauline, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Vatican Apostolic Palace, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Family's Tomb, Campo Verano, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 36.3 years
a bishop for 22.0 years
a cardinal for 4.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Pius IX
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alessandro Macioti †
Titular Archbishop of Colossae
Bishop Giuseppe Palermo, O.E.S.A. †
Titular Bishop of Porphyreon

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Włodzimierz Cardinal Czacki † (1867)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Louis Bel, C.M. † (1865)
Benito Cardinal Sanz y Forés † (1868)
Bishop Pedro Núñez y Pernía, O.S.B. † (1869)
Bishop Raffaele Capone, C.SS.R. † (1874)
Archbishop Domenico Bucchi-Accica † (1874)
Archbishop Camillo Sorgente † (1874)
Archbishop Antonio Maria Grasselli, O.F.M. Conv. † (1874)
Bishop Michael O’Connor † (1874)
Domenico Cardinal Sanguigni † (1874)
Bishop Giovanni Timoleone Raimondi, P.I.M.E. † (1874)
Bishop Ludovico Marangoni, O.F.M. Conv. † (1875)
Bishop Antonio Vincenzo Testa, O.F.M. Obs. † (1875)
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Archbishop Ambrose Notyn Darauni † (1875)
Archbishop Giuseppe Zaffino † (1875)
Bishop Giuseppe Bugliari † (1875)
Bishop St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini † (1876)
Archbishop Cesare Roncetti † (1876)
Bishop Andrija Ilić (Illiich) † (1876)
Patriarch Luigi Piavi (Biavi), O.F.M. Obs. † (1876)
Archbishop Ignazio Ghiurekian, C.M.V. † (1877)
Archbishop Alessandro Balgy, C.M.V. † (1877)
Gaetano Cardinal Aloisi Masella † (1877)
Mario Cardinal Mocenni † (1877)
Bishop St. Daniele Comboni, F.S.C.J. † (1877)
Bishop Francis Silas Marean Chatard † (1878)
Guglielmo Cardinal Sanfelice D’Acquavella, O.S.B. † (1878)
Bishop Charles-Bonaventure-François Theuret † (1878)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Giovacchino Limberti † (1857)
Bishop Giuseppe Targioni † (1857)
Bishop Luigi Maria Paoletti † (1857)
Bishop Gioacchino Antonelli † (1857)
Bishop Giovanni Monetti † (1860)
Bishop José María Covarrubias y Mejía † (1861)
Bishop Francisco de la Concepción Ramírez y González, O.F.M. Ref. † (1861)
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop José Ignacio Checa y Barba † (1861)
Archbishop Salvator (Pietro) Saba, O.F.M. Cap. † (1862)
Bishop Michael Francis Buttigieg † (1863)
Archbishop Martial-Guillaume-Marie Testard du Cosquer † (1863)
Archbishop Antonio Giuseppe Pluym, C.P. † (1863)
Giuseppe Cardinal Berardi † (1863)
Bishop Manoel do Rego Medeiros † (1865)
Luigi Cardinal Oreglia di Santo Stefano † (1866)
Patriarch Giulio Lenti † (1867)
Bishop Gaetano Franceschini † (1867)
Bishop Giuseppe Rosati † (1867)
Archbishop Enrico Bindi † (1867)
Archbishop Giuseppe Giusti † (1867)
Bishop Giovanni Battista Cerruti † (1867)
Archbishop Luigi (Josef) Puecher Passavalli, O.F.M. Cap. † (1867)
Bishop Antonius Grech-Delicata-Testaferrata-Cassia † (1867)
Bishop Raffaele Corradi, O.C.D. † (1868)
Bishop Francisco Cardoso Ayres † (1868)
Bishop Manuel Canuto Restrepo y Villegas † (1870)
Bishop Domenico Ramaschiello † (1871)
Bishop Alessandro Maria Basile, C.SS.R. † (1871)
Bishop Anastasio Laterza, O. Carm. † (1871)
Bishop Tobia Patroni † (1871)
Bishop Eugenio Cano † (1872)
Bishop Salvatore Silvestri, C.SS.R. † (1872)
Bishop Raffaele Gagliardi † (1872)
Bishop Antonio Piterà † (1872)
Bishop Domenico Maria Villa † (1872)
Bishop Giuseppe Maria Cione † (1872)
Bishop Federico Maria Galdi † (1872)
Bishop Giuseppe Maria Cotellessa † (1872)
Bishop Gerlando Maria Genuardi † (1872)
Bishop Giulio Metti, C.O. † (1872)
Bishop Raffaele Bianchi † (1872)
Archbishop Giuseppe Caiazzo, O.E.S.A. † (1873)
Bishop Antonio Sena † (1873)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Priest	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Apostolic Palace of the Quirinale, Pauline, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Vatican Apostolic Palace, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Family's Tomb, Campo Verano, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 22 Dec 1873
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 550, and Page 51
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1856, Number 23
xsta/x933/nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 12, and Page 22, and Page 123
nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 124, and Page 238
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 6, Number 276, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 7, Number 344, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 8, Number 359, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 414, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 10, Number 483, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 582, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 12, Number 641, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 13, Number 676, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 14, Number 721, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 16, Number 850, Ascendance

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