14 Facts About Bonaventura Cerretti

Bonaventura Cerretti was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Bonaventura Cerretti served as Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1925.

Bonaventura Cerretti was born in Orvieto and educated at the seminary in Spoleto and, later, at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as well as the Royal University, Rome.

Bonaventura Cerretti was ordained in 1895, and taught Latin and Italian classics at the Vatican Seminary.

Bonaventura Cerretti was then invited to become a staff member in the Vatican Secretariat of State where he worked from 1899 until 1904.

Bonaventura Cerretti was created Privy chamberlain of His Holiness on 13 January 1904.

Bonaventura Cerretti then served as secretary to the apostolic delegate in Mexico from 1904 to 1906 then as auditor in the apostolic delegation to the United States from 1906 to 1914.

Bonaventura Cerretti was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia on 15 April 1914 by Pope Pius X Bonaventura Cerretti was transferred to the titular see of Corinth on 10 May 1914.

Bonaventura Cerretti was consecrated as a bishop on 19 July 1914 by Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, Cardinal Secretary of State.

Bonaventura Cerretti represented the Holy See at the Paris Peace Conference from May to June 1919; he tried without success to get the Great Powers to accept a set of principles for peace proposed by Pope Benedict XV.

Bonaventura Cerretti was appointed to serve as Apostolic Nuncio to France in 1921.

Bonaventura Cerretti was appointed as archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on 16 July 1930.

Bonaventura Cerretti opted for the order of cardinal bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of Velletri in 1933.

Monsignor Caesar Bonaventura Cerretti, Canon of St Peter's, Rome, was a brother.