Reference style His Eminence Name Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti See none | Spoken style Your Eminence | |
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Died March 29, 1943, Rome, Italy | ||
Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti (March 27, 1876—March 29, 1943) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Nuncio to Yugoslavia from 1922 to 1937, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1937.
Biography
Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti was born in Camaiore, and studied at the seminary in Lucca before going to Rome to study at the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Pontifical Roman Athenaeum "S. Apollinare", and Vatican School of Paleography and Diplomatics.
He was ordained to the priesthood on September 24, 1898, and then did pastoral work in Lucca and taught at its seminary until 1917. Pellegrinetti served as a military chaplain during World War I, from 1917 to 1918, after which he was named secretary of the nunciature to Poland. From 1919 to 1922, he was auditor of the same nunciature. He was raised to the rank of a Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on July 29, 1919, and a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on February 22, 1922.
On May 24, 1922, Pellegrinetti was appointed Titular Archbishop of Adana by Pope Pius XI, and Nuncio to Yugoslavia a week later, on May 29. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 18 from Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, with Archbishops Giovanni Maria Zonghi and Giovanni Volpi serving as co-consecrators, at the church of Santa Maria in Campitelli. Pellegrinetti later served as the papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Zagreb on July 30, 1930. He also negotiated a concordat between Yugoslavia and the Vatican that the Yugoslav parliament did not to ratify, as it had provoked religious rioting on the grounds of being indulgent towards Catholicism.
Pope Pius created him Cardinal Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna in the consistory of December 13, 1937. Pellegrinetti was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.
The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 67. He is buried in the collegiate church of his native Camaiore.