Alfonso Mistrangelo

Alfonso Maria Mistrangelo Sch. P. (26 April 1852 – 7 November 1930) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1899 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1915. He was also a member of the Piarists religious congregation.

His Eminence Alfonso Mistrangelo Sch. P.
Cardinal. Archbishop of Florence
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Florence
See	Florence
Appointed	19 June 1899
Term ended	7 November 1930
Predecessor	Agostino Bausa
Successor	Elia Dalla Costa
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli (1915–30)
Orders
Ordination	17 March 1877
Consecration	22 January 1893 by Lucido Maria Parocchi
Created cardinal	6 December 1915 by Pope Benedict XV
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Birth name	Alfonso Maria Mistrangelo
Born	26 April 1852 Savona, Kingdom of Piedmont
Died	7 November 1930 (aged 78) Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Previous post	Bishop of Pontremoli (1893–99) Superior General of the Piarists (1900–04)

Styles of Alfonso Mistrangelo
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Florence

Biography

Alfonso Mistrangelo was born in Savona, and received the Sacrament of Confirmation on 17 May 1859. He studied at the seminary in Savona before entering the Congregation of the Clerics Poor Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, more commonly known as the Piarists, on 23 October 1870, in Liguria. Educated at Piarist houses of study from 1870 to 1877, Mistrangelo made his simple profession in 1871, and his solemn profession in 1874.

He received the tonsure and other insignias of the clerical character on 28 February 1875, the subdiaconate on 13 May 1875, and the diaconate on 18 July 1875. Mistrangelo was ordained to the priesthood on 17 March 1877, and then taught at the Piarist schools of Finalborgo, Carcare, and Ovada. In 1880 he became the rector of the Piarist school in Ovada.

On 16 January 1893, Mistrangelo was appointed Bishop of Pontremoli by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 11 May from Cardinal Lucido Parocchi, with Archbishop Antonio Grasselli, OFM Conv, and Bishop Luigi Canestrari serving as co-consecrators, in the church of San Pantaleone.

Mistrangelo was later promoted to archbishop of Florence on 19 June 1899, and served as Superior General of the Piarists from 1900 to 1904 as well. Pope Benedict XV created him Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria degli Angeli in the consistory of 6 December 1915. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1922 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XI.

Cardinal Mistrangelo died from gastric poisoning[1] in Florence, at the age of 78; his tenure as archbishop lasted for thirty-one years. He is buried in the cemetery of Soffiano.

References

1. TIME Magazine. Milestones November 17, 1930

External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}