Achille Apolloni (13 May 1823 – 3 April 1893) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who enjoyed the career of someone from a distinguished family, working in the Roman Curia or the personal service of the pope, and promoted automatically without regard for personal merit. He was made a cardinal in 1890.

Biography

Achille Apolloni was born in

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in the

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on 13 May 1823 to a noble family. Beginning in 1842, he studied at the Jesuit College for Nobles, the Collegio Romano, and the

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alongside "other young nobles, some of whom later rose to the top positions of the Catholic Church". He received an honorary doctorate in law in 1847. He was ordained a priest on 20 March 1850. He was appointed a canon of the chapter of St. Peter's Basilica in 1851. He filled assignments as papal delegate in Rieti from 1854 and 1858 and in

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from 1859 to 1860; both towns were provincial capitals of the

. He became an auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota in 1867 and in 1868 Pope Pius IX charged him managing the delivery of charity to relieve the victims of the cholera epidemic in Albano. In 1882, Pope Leo XIII named him president of the special commission for the relations between the Holy See and civil tribunals. He was named Vice-camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church on 3 December 1884. Pope Leo made him a cardinal on 24 May 1889. He received his red biretta and was assigned the deaconry of San Cesareo in Palatio on 27 May 1889. He died of a heart attack in Rome on 3 April 1893.

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