Giovanni Cagliero

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See=Frascati (suburbicarian) |

Giovanni Cardinal Cagliero, SDB (January 11, 1838—February 28, 1926) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Apostolic Delegate to Nicaragua from 1908 to 1915, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1915.

Biography

Giovanni Cagliero was born in Castelnuovo d'Asti, and studied at its seminary and later the University of Turin. He entered the Pious Society of St. Francis de Sales, more commonly known as the Salesians, in 1851. He received clerical habit from St. John Bosco himself and was reputed to be his favorite pupil. Cagliero was also a classmate of St. Domenico Savio and Bl. Michele Rua.

He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1862, and then taught at the Salesian House of Studies in Turin until 1875. Cagliero led the first ten Salesians to America and established five houses in Uruguay and Argentina between 1875 and 1877, whence he became spiritual director of his society and the first General Director of Daughters of Mary Auxiliary in Turin. He was made Pro-Apostolic Vicar of new vicariate in Northern Patagonia, in Argentina, on November 20, 1883.

On October 30, 1884, Cagliero was appointed Titular Bishop of "Magydus" by Pope Leo XIII, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following December 7 from Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda. After being promoted to Titular Archbishop of "Sebastea" on March 24, 1904, he later served as Apostolic Visitor to the dioceses of Bobbio, Piacenza, Savona, and Tortona in 1904. Cagliero was named Apostolic delegate to Costa Rica on June 10, 1908, and to Nicaragua on October 26 of that same year.

Pope Benedict XV created him Cardinal Priest of "S. Bernardo alle Terme" in the consistory of December 6, 1915; he was the first Salesian cardinal. Cagliero was opted for the order of Cardinal Bishops and assumed the suburbicarian see of Frascati on December 16, 1920. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1922 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XI.

The Cardinal died in Rome, at the age of 88. He was initially buried in the sepulchre of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Campo di Verano cemetery, but his remains were later transferred in 1964 to "Mater Misericordiae" Cathedral in Viedma.

External links

* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-c.htm#Cagliero Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcagliero.html Catholic-Hierarchy]