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Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani

His Eminence
Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani
Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies
Appointed 5 May 1948
Term ended 13 January 1951
Predecessor Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte
Successor Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant
Other posts
Orders
Ordination 4 April 1896
by Francesco di Paola Cassetta
Consecration 14 April 1918
by Pietro Gasparri
Created Cardinal 30 June 1930
by Pius XI
Rank Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born (1871-10-01)1 October 1871
Rome
Died 13 January 1951(1951-01-13) (aged 79)
Rome
Nationality Italian
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Frascati (suburbicarian), Ostia (suburbicarian)

Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani (1 October 1871 – 13 January 1951) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Vicar General of Rome, Secretary of the Holy Office, and Dean of the College of Cardinals. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930.

Marchetti-Selvaggiani was born in Rome to Vincenzo and Valeria (née Caretti) Marchetti-Selvaggiani. A boyhood friend of Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII), he studied at the Almo Collegio Capranica and Pontifical Gregorian University. Marchetti Selvaggiani was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Francesco di Paola Cassetta on 4 April 1896.

He then served in the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, as a minutante, until 1900. From 1900 to 1906, he was auditor of the Apostolic Delegation to the United States in Washington, D.C. He was attached to the secretariat of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs for a year before becoming auditor of the Apostolic Nunciature to Germany in 1907. Marchetti Selvaggiani was named Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 25 December 1914, Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 7 July 1915, and protonotary apostolic on 26 September 1917. From 1915 to 1918, he was a confidential representative of the Holy See in Bern, Switzerland.


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