Carlo Minoretti
{{Short description|Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church}}
{{unreferenced|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
|type = Cardinal
|honorific_prefix = His Eminence
|name = Carlo Dalmazio Minoretti
|image = Carlo Minoretti.jpg
|title = Archbishop of Genoa
|church = Roman Catholic Church
|archdiocese = Genoa
|see = Genoa
|appointed = 16 January 1925
|enthroned = 22 April 1925
|term_end = 13 March 1938
|predecessor = Francesco Sidoli
|successor = Pietro Boetto
|other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio (1929-38)
|ordination = 22 December 1883
|ordained_by = Luigi Nazari di Calabiana
|consecration = 16 January 1916
|consecrated_by = Andrea Carlo Ferrari
|cardinal = 16 December 1929
|created_cardinal_by = Pope Pius XI
|birth_name = Carlo Dalmazio Minoretti
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|9|17|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Cogliate, Kingdom of Italy
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1938|3|13|1861|9|17|df=yes}}
|death_place = Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Bishop of Crema (1915-25)|Apostolic Administrator of Crema (1925-26)}}
|coat_of_arms = 140px
|motto = Per Jesum ad Mariam }}
Carlo Dalmazio Minoretti (17 September 1861 – 13 March 1938) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa.
Early life and education
Carlo Minoretti was born in Cogliate, Lombardy. He was educated at the Seminary of Milan. Ordained priest in 1884, he served as a faculty member of Seminary of Monza from 1890 until 1907, when he became a faculty member of the Seminary of Milan until 1909. He did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Milan until 1915.
Episcopate
Pope Benedict XV appointed him Bishop of Crema on 6 December 1915. He was consecrated on 16 January 1916 by Andrea Ferrari, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan. Pope Pius XI promoted him to the metropolitan see of Genoa on 16 January 1925.
Cardinalate
Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio in the consistory of 16 December 1929. He died in 1938 in Genoa in office.
References
{{Reflist|30em}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061113082017/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-m.htm The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary]{{self-published inline|date=June 2025}}
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmino.html Catholic Hierarchy data for this cardinal] Wikipedia:SPS
{{S-start}}
{{S-rel|ca}}
{{Succession box
|before=Bernardo Pizzorno
|title=Bishop of Crema
|after=Giacomo Montanelli
|years=6 December 1915 – 16 January 1925}}
{{Succession box
|before=Francesco Sidoli
|title=Archbishop of Genoa
|after=Pietro Boetto
|years=16 January 1925 – 13 March 1938}}
{{S-end}}
{{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism |portal3= Italy}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minoretti, Carlo}}
Category:People from the Metropolitan City of Milan
Category:20th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops