Angelo Di Pietro

For the inventor with the same name, see Angelo Di Pietro (inventor).

His Eminence Angelo di Pietro
Datary of the Apostolic Dataria
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	29 June 1908
Term ended	5 December 1914
Predecessor	Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo
Successor	Vincenzo Vannutelli
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina (1903–14)
Previous post(s)	Titular Bishop of Nyssa (1866–77) Auxiliary Bishop of Velletri (1866–77) Apostolic Delegate to Argentina (1877–79) Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus (1877–93) Apostolic Internuncio to Brazil (1879–82) Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria (1882–87) Prefect of the Congregation of the Council (1893–1902) Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio (1893–1903) Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals (1895–96) Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars (1902) Pro-Datary of the Apostolic Dataria (1902–08)
Orders
Ordination	20 December 1851 by Carlo Gigli
Consecration	1 July 1866 by Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
Created cardinal	16 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	Angelo di Pietro 22 May 1828 Vivaro Romano, Tivoli, Papal States
Died	5 December 1914(1914-12-05) (aged 86) Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Buried	Campo Verano
Alma mater	La Sapienza University

Styles of Angelo Di Pietro
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Nisa in Lycia (titular see)

Angelo Di Pietro (22 May 1828 – 5 December 1914) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and prefect of the Congregation of the Council.

Biography

Angelo Di Pietro was born in Vivaro Romano, Tivoli. He was educated at the Seminary of Tivoli, and La Sapienza University in Rome where he earned a doctorate utroque iuris in 1858.

He was ordained on 20 December 1851 in Tivoli. He served as secretary and pro-vicar general of the Bishop of Tivoli; vicar general of the diocese of Ostia and Velletri. He was appointed as titular bishop of Nisa in Lycia and auxiliary bishop of Velletri on 25 June 1866. He was promoted to the titular see of Nazianzo on 28 December 1877. He was appointed as Apostolic delegate and extraordinary legate in Paraguay and Uruguay on 18 January 1878. He served as Nuncio to the Brazilian Empire from 1879 until he was posted as Nuncio to Bavaria on 21 March 1882, where he served until 1887, when he became Nuncio to Spain.

He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio in the consistory of 16 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII.

Pope Leo appointed him Prefect of the Congregation of the Council on 20 June 1893. He opted for the title of San Lorenzo in Lucina on 22 June 1903. He participated in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X and the conclave of 1914 that elected Pope Benedict XV. He died in 1914.