Antonio Agliardi

{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (1832–1915)}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

|type = Cardinal

|image = Antonio Agliardi.jpg

|caption = The then-archbishop pictured sometime in the 1880s.

|honorific_prefix = His Eminence

|name = Antonio Agliardi

|title = Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery

|church = Roman Catholic Church

|appointed = 29 June 1908

|term_end = 19 March 1915

|predecessor = Jean-Allarmet de Brogny

|successor = Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo

|other_post = {{unbulleted list|Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1899–1915)|Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso in commendum (1903–15)}}

|ordination = 22 December 1855

|consecration = 12 October 1884

|consecrated_by = Giovanni Simeoni

|cardinal = 22 June 1896

|created_cardinal_by = Pope Leo XIII

|rank = Cardinal-Priest (1896–99)

|birth_date = 4 September 1832

|birth_place = Cologno al Serio, Bergamo, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1915|03|19|1832|09|04}}

|death_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy

|parents = Domenico Agliardi
Lidia Vimercati

|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Apostolic Delegate to East India (1884–87)|Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Maritima (1884–96)|Pro-Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (1887–88)|Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (1888–89)|Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria (1889–93)|Apostolic Nuncio to Austria-Hungary (1893–96)|Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo (1896–99)|Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals (1898–99)|Vice-Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery (1903–08)}}

|alma_mater = Roman Seminary
Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare

|coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Antonio Agliardi.svg }}

Antonio Agliardi (4 September 1832 – 19 March 1915) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.

Biography

Agliardi was born at Cologno al Serio, in what is now the Province of Bergamo.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=377}}

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain. On his return he was appointed secretary to the Congregation of the Propaganda.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=377}}

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=377}}

In 1887 he again visited India, to carry out the terms of the concordat arranged with Portugal. The same year he was appointed secretary of the Congregation super negotiis ecclesiae extraordinariis. In 1889 he became papal Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria at Munich and in 1892 at Vienna. Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=377}}

In the consistory of 1896 he was elevated to Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo. In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bagliardi.html|title=Antonio Cardinal Agliardi [Catholic-Hierarchy]|last=Cheney|first=David M.|website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org|access-date=2018-05-16}} In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=377}} and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

He died in Rome and was buried in Bergamo.{{sfn|Chisholm|1922|p=71}}

Episcopal lineage

Agliardi's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:{{citation |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcantoni.html |access-date=2019-08-09 |work=Catholic Hierarchy |title=Bishop Oscar Cantoni |author=David M. Cheney}}