Giacomo Filippo Fransoni (10 December 1775 – 20 April 1856) was an Italian

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and

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who served from 1834 to 1856 as

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of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. He was the cardinal priest of the Church of

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at the time of his death.

Life

Born in

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, Fransoni was ordained a priest on 14 March 1807, at 31 years of age, by Cardinal

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. On 7 September 1822, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus and ordained to the episcopate three months later. On 21 January 1823, aged 47, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal. On 2 October 1826, aged 50, he was elevated to the cardinalate and named cardinal priest of the

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of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. On 21 November 1834, Fransoni was appointed prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in the

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. On 28 September 1855, aged almost 80, his titular church was changed to that of the Church of

. Fransoni died on 20 April 1856, aged 80. He had been a priest for 49 years, a bishop for 33 and a cardinal for almost 30. Fransoni is in the

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. Among those whom he ordained as priests was the English convert,

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, Cong.Orat.

References

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