1. Ignazio Camillo Guglielmo Maria Pietro Persico was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
22 Facts About Ignatius Persico
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Ignatius Persico served multiple assignments, including as vicar apostolic, bishop, apostolic delegate to Ireland, and vicar of the Roman Colleges.
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Ignatius Persico briefly served as the bishop of the Diocese of Savannah in Georgia in the United States from 1870 to 1873.
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Ignazio Ignatius Persico was born on 30 January 1823 in Naples in the Kingdom of Italy.
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Ignatius Persico entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order on 25 April 1839.
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Ignatius Persico was ordained into the priesthood in Naples for the Franciscan Order on 24 January 1846 by Bishop Gennaro Pasca.
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In November 1846, Ignatius Persico was sent to Patna in British India.
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In 1850, Ignatius Persico accompanied Hartmann to Bombay in what was then the Bombay Presidency of India.
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Ignatius Persico was then transferred to the Apostolic Vicariate of Bombay.
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Ignatius Persico assisted Hartmann in founding a seminary in Bombay and establishing the Bombay Catholic Examiner.
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Ignatius Persico was appointed on 8 March 1854 as coadjutor vicar apostolic for the Apostolic Vicariate of Bombay and Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis by Pius IX.
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Ignatius Persico was consecrated by Bishop Hartmann on 4 June 1854.
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In 1855, Ignatius Persico was appointed visitor of the Apostolic Vicariate of Agra in Agra, British India.
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Ignatius Persico was later named vicar apostolic of that district.
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Ignatius Persico wrote an eyewitness account of the events in Agra that was published in 1858.
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Ignatius Persico returned in 1860 to Italy to recover his health.
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On 11 March 1870, Ignatius Persico was appointed by Pius IX as bishop of the Diocese of Savannah in the Southern United States.
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On 15 July 1878, Ignatius Persico was appointed by Pope Leo XIII as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Sora-Cassino-Aquino-Pontecorvo in Italy.
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The pope then sent Ignatius Persico to serve as apostolic delegate to Ireland, then a part of the United Kingdom; he was to evaluate the ties between the Irish clergy and the Irish nationalist movement.
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Ignatius Persico quickly realized that he needed to consider the history of Ireland in addition to current politics and delayed his report to analyze it.
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On 16 January 1893, Ignatius Persico was created cardinal priest of the title of St Peter in Chains.
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Ignatius Persico died in Rome on 7 December 1895 and was buried at the Church of Propaganda Fide, Campo Verano cemetery.