Massimo Massimi

Styles of Massimo Massimi
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Informal style	Cardinal
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Massimo Massimi (10 April 1877 – 6 March 1954) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in the Roman Curia from 1946 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935.

Massimi was born in Rome to Prospero Massimi, a lawyer, and his wife Luisa Guerra. Baptized in the church of Santa Maria in Portico, he studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary (from where he obtained his doctorates in theology and canon law) alongside Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII. He then attended the University of Rome, earning a doctorate in civil law. Massimi was ordained by Archbishop Giuseppe Ceppetelli on 14 April 1900, in the Lateran Basilica.

While doing pastoral work in Rome until 1908, he was named a professor at the "Institutions of Civil Law" of the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare on 18 November 1904. He entered the Roman Curia on 20 October 1908, as a Promoter of Justice in the Roman Rota. Raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 18 May 1911, Massimi was later made auditor (29 November 1915), pro-dean (19 February 1924), and dean (1 May 1926) of the Roman Rota.

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