Tommaso Boggiani
Tommaso Boggiani
Profile Joined the Dominicans on 15 September 1879 , taking the name Tommaso. Priest . Missionary to Constantinople . Prior of the Dominican convent at Ragusa , Sicily , Italy in 1891 . Parish priest at Santa Maria di Castello, Genoa , Italy in 1900 . Taught in the seminary of Genoa . Apostolic administrator of Adria, Italy in 1908 . Bishop of Adria, Italy on 16 October 1908 . Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhone and Apostolic Delegate to Mxico on 10 January 1912 . Apostolic Administrator of Genoa , Italy on 7 March 1914 . Secretary of the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XV in 1914 . Created Cardinal -Priest of Saints Quirico e Giulitta on 4 December 1916 . Archbishop of Genoa on 10 March 1919 , a position he resigned in 1921 . Participated in the conclave in 1922 that elected Pope Pius XI . Cardinal -Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina on 15 July 1929 . Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery and Cardinal -Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso on 13 March 1933 . Participated in the conclave of 1939 that elected Venerable Pope Pius XII .
Born 19 January 1863 at Boscomarengo, Alessandria, Italy as Pio Boggiani
Died 26 February 1942 of natural causes