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Domenico Agostini

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Domenico Agostini
Cardinal, Patriarch of Venice
File:Domenico Agostini.jpg
See Venice
Installed 22 June 1877
Term ended 31 December 1891
Predecessor Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato
Successor Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
Other post Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Previous posts Bishop of Chioggia
(1871-1877)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio
(1882-1886)
Orders
Ordination 26 January 1851
by Giacomo Monico
Consecration 17 December 1871
by Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato
Created cardinal 27 March 1882
by Leo XII
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born 31 May 1825
near Treviso, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
Died 31 December 1891 (aged 66)
Venice, Kingdom of Italy
Buried San Michele Cemetery
Denomination Roman Catholic Church

Domenico Agostini (31 May 1825 — 31 December 1891) was an Italian cardinal and Patriarch of Venice.

Biography

Born near Treviso, he studied in the local seminary, then in the University of Padua. He took a doctorate of philosophy and law, but he left the clerical state to join the citizen militia during the war with Austria in the period 1848–1850. He received the minor orders in 1850, after rejoining the clerical state.

He was ordained priest on 26 January 1851 in Venice and incardinated in the diocese of Treviso. Elected bishop of Chioggia on 27 October 1871. Then he was promoted to the patriarchal see of Venice on 22 June 1877.

Agostini was created cardinal priest in the consistory of 27 March 1882 by Pope Leo XIII with the title of Sant'Eusebio. Opted for title of Santa Maria della Pace on 7 June 1886.

Cardinal Agostini died on New Year's Eve, 1891 and was interred at the San Michele cemetery on the Isola di San Michele in Venice.