Mario Mattei

{{Short description|Italian cardinal}}

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|type = Cardinal

|image = Mario Mattei.jpg

|honorific_prefix = His Eminence

|name = Mario Mattei

|title = Dean of the College of Cardinals

|church = Roman Catholic Church

|appointed = 30 September 1860

|term_end = 7 October 1870

|predecessor = Vincenzo Macchi

|successor = Costantino Patrizi Naro

|other_post = {{unbulleted list|President of the Congregation of the Reverend Basilica of Saint Peter (1843–70)|Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica (1843–70)|Pro-Datary of the Apostolic Dataria (1858–70)|Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia-Velletri (1860–70)}}

|ordination = c. 1817

|consecration = 23 June 1844

|consecrated_by = Vincenzo Macchi

|cardinal = 2 July 1832

|created_cardinal_by = Pope Gregory XVI

|rank = Cardinal-Deacon (1832–42)
Cardinal-Priest (1842–44)
Cardinal-Bishop (1844–70)

|birth_name = Mario Mattei

|birth_date = 6 September 1792

|birth_place = Pergola, Marche

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1870|10|07|1792|09|06}}

|death_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy

|buried = Saint Peter's Basilica

|parents = Marco Mattei
Francesca Orsini Bianchi

|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Aquiro (1832–42)|Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals (1834–35; 1848–50)|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli (1842–44)|Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1844–54)|Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1854–60)|Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1854–58)}}

|alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles|La Sapienza University}} }}

Mario Mattei (6 September 1792, Pergola, Marche – 7 October 1870) was an Italian Cardinal, of the Roman noble House of Mattei. He became Dean of the College of Cardinals in 1860.

Personal life

Mario Mattei was born on 6 September 1792 in Pergola, Marche.

He was educated at the Collegio Ghislieri, a Roman college, and at the La Sapienza University where he received a doctorate in utroque iure) and later attended the Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles in 1810.[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1832.htm#Mattei Florida International University - Mattei] Around 1817, he was ordained a priest.

Cardinal

He was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Gregory XVI in 1832 and was subsequently appointed to the following posts:[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmatte.html Catholic Hierarchy - Mattei] Wikipedia:SPS

Vatican service

In 1843, Mattei was appointed as Arch-Priest of St. Peter's Basilica and held this position until his death in 1870.

Records indicate that Mattei was appointed Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals twice; between 1834 and 1835 and between 1848 and 1850 and he was also appointed to be the Dean of the College of Cardinals in 1860. He was a participant in the First Vatican Council between 1869 and 1870 and in the Papal Conclave of 1846 that elected Pope Pius IX.

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before=Ludovico Micara |

title=Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati|

after=Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo|

years=17 June 1844 – 23 June 1854}}

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before=Luigi Lambruschini |

title=Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina|

after=Giuseppe Milesi Pironi Ferretti |

years=23 June 1854 – 17 December 1860}}

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before=Vincenzo Macchi |

title=Cardinal-Bishop of Osta e Velletri
and
Dean of the College of Cardinals|

after=Costantino Patrizi Naro |

years=17 December 1860 – 7 October 1870}}

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before=Giacomo Giustiniani |

title=Arch-Priest of St. Peter's Basilica |

after=Niccola Paracciani Clarelli |

years=11 March 1843 – 7 October 1870}}

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before=Ludovico Gazzoli |

title=Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals |

after=Nicola Grimaldi |

years=20 January 1834 – 6 April 1835 (1st Term)}}

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before=Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli |

title=Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals |

after=Giacomo Luigi Brignole |

years=1848–1850 (2nd Term)}}

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Category:1792 births

Category:1870 deaths

Category:People from Pergola, Marche

Category:19th-century Italian cardinals

Category:Cardinal-bishops of Frascati

Category:Cardinal-bishops of Ostia

Category:Cardinal-bishops of Porto

Category:House of Mattei

Category:Deans of the College of Cardinals

Category:Camerlengos of the Holy Roman Church

Category:Cardinals created by Pope Gregory XVI