Carlo AGOSTINI

From Legacyview Dictionary of Biography

(1888-1952)

Birth. April 22, 1888, S. Martino di Lupari, diocese of Treviso, Italy.

Education. Seminary of Treviso, Treviso; Pontifical Roman Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome; Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

Priesthood. Ordained, September 24, 1910, church S. Dona di Piave, by Andrea Giacinto Longhin, O.F.M.Cap., bishop of Treviso. Further studies, 1910-1913. Faculty member, Seminary of Treviso, 1913-1925; its rector, 1925-1932. Privy chamberlain of His Holiness, 1925.

Episcopate. Elected bishop of Padua, January 30, 1932. Consecrated, April 10, 1932, Treviso, by Andrea Giacinto Longhin, O.F.M.Cap., bishop of Treviso, assisted by Elia dalla Costa, archbishop of Florence, and by Eugenio Beccegati, bishop of Ceneda. Apostolic administrator of Treviso, March 8 to December 6, 1936. Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, March 25, 1942. Promoted to the patriarchate of Venice, February 5, 1949.

Cardinalate. November 29, 1952, announcement made of his creation as cardinal; consistory to take place, January 12, 1953; died before the consistory was held.

Death. December 28, 1952, Venice. Buried, S. Michele cemetery, Venice. Transferred to the crypt of the patriarchal cathedral, Venice, November 1957.