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Carlo Nocella

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Carlo Nocella
Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto
Church Roman Catholic Church
Appointed 25 June 1903
Term ended 22 July 1908
Predecessor Agostino Ciasca
Successor Antonio Vico
Previous posts Protonary Apostolic de numero of the Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces (1874-99)
Secretary of the Consistorial Congregation (1892-1903)
Latin Patriarch of Antioch (1899-1901)
Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1901-03)
Orders
Ordination 2 September 1849
Consecration 16 July 1899
by Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
Created cardinal 22 June 1903
by Pope Leo XIII
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born Carlo Nocella
25 November 1826
Rome, Papal States
Died 22 July 1908 (aged 81)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Buried Campo Verano
Parents Vincenzo Nocella
Maria Salvati
Alma mater Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare

Carlo Nocella (25 November 1826 – 22 July 1908) was an Italian cardinal. He was Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (1892–1899), Latin Patriarch of Antioch (1899–1901), and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1901–1903).

Biography

Nocella was born in Rome and studied at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare, from where he obtained a doctorate in canon and civil law.[1] Ordained a priest on 2 September 1849,[2] he joined the faculty of the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare and later became Secretary of Latin Letters, canon of the Liberian Basilica and of St. Peter's Basilica, and protonotary apostolic de numero participantium. He was named Secretary of Briefs to the Princes on 5 December 1884, and Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation on 21 March 1892.[1]

On 22 June 1899, Nocella was appointed Latin Patriarch of Antioch by Pope Leo XIII.[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following 16 July from Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, with Archbishops Felice Maria de Neckere and Casimiro Gennari, at the altar of the Chair of Peter in St. Peter's Basilica. He was transferred to the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople on 18 April 1901.[2]

Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Callisto in the consistory of 22 June 1903. He participated in the 1903 papal conclave, which elected Pope Pius X. Nocella died in Rome, aged 81; he is buried in Campo Verano cemetery.[1]

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