1. Lucido Maria Parocchi was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office from 5 August 1896 until his death.
14 Facts About Lucido Parocchi
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Lucido Maria Parocchi was born in Mantua as the son of Antonio Parocchi, a rich miller, and Genoveva Soresina.
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Lucido Parocchi was educated at the Seminary of Mantua, and later at the Collegio Romano, where he was awarded a doctorate in theology on 5 September 1856.
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Lucido Parocchi was ordained to the priesthood on 17 May 1856, by Costantino Patrizi Naro, Cardinal Vicar General of Rome.
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Lucido Parocchi returned to the diocese of Mantua, where he worked as a professor of ecclesiastical history, moral theology, and canon law at its seminary.
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Lucido Parocchi was created Domestic prelate of His Holiness on 10 March 1871.
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Lucido Parocchi became Bishop of Pavia in 1871, being consecrated on 5 November of that year in the church of Santissima Trinita al Monte Pincio by Cardinal Patrizi Naro.
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Lucido Parocchi was promoted to the metropolitan see of Bologna on 12 March 1877.
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Lucido Parocchi participated in the conclave of 1878 that elected Pope Leo XIII.
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Lucido Parocchi resigned pastoral government of the archdiocese on 28 June 1882.
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Lucido Parocchi opted for the title of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 24 March 1884.
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Lucido Parocchi was appointed as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope Leo on 1 June 1888.
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Lucido Parocchi was elected to the order of bishops and the suburbicarian see of Albano on 24 May 1889.
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Lucido Parocchi opted for the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1896.