Vincenzo Santucci
{{Short description|Italian Catholic cardinal}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
|type = Cardinal
|image = San giovanni in laterano, interno, navata esterna sx, sepolcro di vincenzo santucci.jpg
|caption = Tomb in the Lateran Basilica.
|honorific_prefix = His Eminence
|name = Vincenzo Santucci
|title = Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria ad Martyres
|church = Roman Catholic Church
|appointed = 23 June 1854
|term_end = 19 August 1861
|predecessor = Adriano Fieschi
|successor = Roberto Giovanni Roberti
|cardinal = 7 March 1853
|created_cardinal_by = Pope Pius IX
|rank = Cardinal-Deacon
|birth_name = Vincenzo Santucci
|birth_date = 18 February 1796
|birth_place = Gorga, Papal States
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1861|08|19|1796|02|18}}
|death_place = Rocca di Papa, Papal States
|buried = Basilica of Saint John Lateran
|parents = Ascenso Santucci
Clorinda Mazzetti
|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Substitute for General Affairs (1844-50)|Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesial Affairs (1850-53)|Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia (1853-54)}} }}
Vincenzo Santucci, also Vincenso Santucci (18 February 1796 - 19 August 1861) was an Italian cardinal, who spent his life serving in the Roman Curia.{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsantv.html|work=Catholic Hierarchy|title=Cardinal Vincenzo Santucci}}
Life
He was born the son of Ascenso Santucci and Clorinda Mazzetti in Gorga in the region of Lazio, then part of the Papal States, now in the Province of Rome.{{cite web|url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1853.htm#Santucci|work=Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church|title=Santucci, Vincenzo}}
As a young man, Santucci completed his higher education at the Pamphilio College, after which he was ordained as a Catholic priest at an unknown date. In 1832 he began a career in the papal diplomatic corps, serving as secretary to Cardinal Placido Zurla, O.S.B. Cam., in the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Santucci was named a Cardinal Deacon by Pope Pius IX in the consistory of 7 March 1853 and was given as his titular church that of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzio from 1853 to 1854, when he was granted a change to holding the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres, better known as the Pantheon. In November 1856 he was named the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Studies, now the Congregation for Catholic Education, a post which he held until his death.
Santucci died in Rome at the age of 65 and, at his request, was buried in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.
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Category:People from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital
Category:19th-century Italian cardinals