Tommaso Pio Boggiani

Styles of Tommaso Boggiani
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Porto e Santa Rufina (suburbicarian see)

Tommaso Pio Boggiani O.P. (19 January 1863 – 26 February 1942) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa.

Pio Boggiani was born in Boscomarengo, Alessandria, Italy. He joined the Dominicans on 15 September 1879. He changed his baptismal name from Pio to Tommaso. He was ordained and went to work as a missionary in Constantinople. He was elected Prior of the Dominican convent at Ragusa in 1891. He served as Pastor of the parish of S. Maria di Castello, Genoa in 1900 but was transferred to be a faculty member of the Seminary of Genoa. In 1908 he was appointed Apostolic administrator of Adria.

Pope Pius X appointed him bishop of Adria e Rovigo on 31 October 1908. He was consecrated on 22 November 1908 by Rafael Merry del Val, who was at that time Cardinal Secretary of State. He was transferred to be titular Archbishop of Edessa di Osröene on 9 January 1912 and was named apostolic delegate to Mexico the next day. He was appointed Apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Genoa on 7 March 1914. He served as Secretary of the conclave of 1914 that elected Pope Benedict XV.

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