Agostino Cardinal Silj †

Deceased

Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Jul 1846		Born
4 Apr 1874	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Norcia, Italy
26 Dec 1906	60.4	Appointed	Secret Almoner of the Office of Papal Charities
26 Dec 1906	60.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Ponti
13 Jan 1907	60.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Ponti
6 Dec 1916	70.4	Appointed	Vice-Chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber
15 Dec 1919	73.4	Elevated to Cardinal
18 Dec 1919	73.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
20 Mar 1920	73.6	Appointed	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
27 Feb 1926	79.6	Died	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

MicroData Summary for Agostino Silj
(WikiData: Q769784)
Agostino Cardinal Silj (born 9 Jul 1846, died 27 Feb 1926) Prefect of Apostolic Signatura

Consistory - 1919: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1922: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Calcara di Visso, Italy

a priest for 51.8 years
a bishop for 19.1 years
a cardinal for 6.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Principal Consecrator:
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pietro Gasparri †
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina
Bishop Ercolano Marini †
Bishop of Norcia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Pellegrino Francesco Stagni, O.S.M. † (1907)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Adam Stefan Cardinal Sapieha † (1911)
Bishop Pie Armand Pierre Sabadel, O.F.M. Cap. † (1911)
Bishop Hermann Joseph (Thomas) Esser, O.P. † (1917)

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1907, Number 2
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 98

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