Francesco Segna was educated at the Jesuit school, Tivoli and later at the Roman Seminary in Rome where he earned a doctorate in theology and at the La Sapienza University where he received a doctorate in law.
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Francesco Segna was ordained to the priesthood on 20 December 1860.
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Francesco Segna was appointed as professor of dogma at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum of S Apollinare in 1869.
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Francesco Segna served as a canonist of the Apostolic Penitentiary.
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Francesco Segna was created Domestic prelate of His Holiness in 1884.
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Francesco Segna left Rome to become the Auditor of the nunciature in Spain in 1884 and was promoted to be the charge d'affaires in 1887.
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Francesco Segna returned to the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs to become its secretary on 13 July 1891.
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Francesco Segna was created and Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of 18 May 1894.
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Francesco Segna resigned his post at the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs the same day and was appointed Archivist of the Holy Roman Church on 4 July 1896.
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Francesco Segna was a cardinal elector in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X Francesco Segna was Cardinal protodeacon.
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Francesco Segna was appointed as Prefect of the Congregation of the Index on 13 January 1908 holding the post until his death in 1911.