Antonio Agliardi

AGLIARDI, ANTONIO (1832- ), papal diplomatist, was born at

Cologno (Bergamo), Italy, on the 4th of September 1832. 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 Propaganda. In 1884 he was

created by Leo XIII. archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and

sent to India to report on the establishment of the hierarchy

there. In 1887 he again visited India, to carry out the terms

of the concordat arranged with Portugal. The same year he

was appointed secretary to the Congregation super negotiis

ecclesiae extraordinariis, in 1889 became papal nuncio at

Munich and in 1892 at Vienna. Allowing himself to be involved

in the ecclesiastical disputes by which Hungary was divided

in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the

Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled. His services

were rewarded by a Cardinalate and the archbishopric of

Ferrara. In 1903 he was named vice-chancellor of the Roman Church.

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