Giuseppe Mori

His Eminence Giuseppe Mori
Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation of the Council
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	8 December 1916
Term ended	11 December 1922
Predecessor	Oreste Giorgi
Successor	Bernardo Colombo
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of San Nicola in Cacere pro hac vice (1933-1934)
Previous post(s)	Undersecretary of the Congregation of the Sacraments (1908-16) Prelate Auditor of the Roman Rota (1909-22) Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Cacere (1922-33)
Orders
Ordination	17 September 1874
Created cardinal	11 December 1922 by Pope Pius XI
Rank	Cardinal-deacon (1922-1933) Cardinal-priest (1933-1934)
Personal details
Born	Giuseppe Mori 24 January 1850 Loro Piceno, Fermo, Papal States
Died	30 September 1934(1934-09-30) (aged 84) Loro Piceno, Fermo, Kingdom of Italy
Alma mater	Pontifical Roman Seminary
Motto	Ave crux spes unica

Styles of Giuseppe Mori
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	none

Giuseppe Mori (24 January 1850 — 30 September 1934) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Council from 1916 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922.

His motto was "Ave crux spes unica" ("Hail the cross, our only hope").

Biography

Born in Loro Piceno, Mori studied at the seminary in Fermo and the Pontifical Roman Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood on 17 September 1874, and then did pastoral work in Rome until 1880. Mori was raised to the rank of honorary chamberlain of his holiness on 4 October 1880, and served as a staff member (1885–1903) and the auditor (1903–1908) of the Sacred Congregation of the Council in the Roman Curia.

He later became undersecretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments on 20 October 1908, auditor of the Roman Rota on 9 February 1909, and secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Council on 8 December 1916. As secretary of the council, Mori served as the second-highest official of that dicastery successively under Cardinals Francesco di Paola Cassetta, Donato Sbarretti, and Giulio Serafini.

Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere in the consistory of 11 December 1922. Mori chose to be elevated to a cardinal-priest (retaining the same titular church) after ten years' standing as a cardinal-deacon on 13 March 1933. He also served as a judge of the Apostolic Signatura and sat on the committee appointed to rule the Church during the sede vacante.

Mori died from heart disease in his native Loro Piceno, at age 84. He was buried in the chapel of the Loro Piceno cemetery, and his remains were later transferred to his family's tomb.

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}
• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Archived 14 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine