1. Luigi Galimberti was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who had a varied career as an academic and theologian, journalist, diplomat, and Vatican official.
16 Facts About Luigi Galimberti
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Luigi Galimberti became an archbishop in 1887 and a cardinal in 1893.
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Luigi Galimberti was considered a candidate for the papacy when he died at the age of 60.
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Luigi Galimberti was born in Rome on 26 April 1836, the son of a family of lawyers; his mother was the second cousin of Pope Leo XIII.
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Luigi Galimberti attended the Roman Seminary, where he earned degrees in philosophy in 1854 and theology in 1858.
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Luigi Galimberti was ordained a priest on 18 December 1858 and then earned a degree in civil and canon law in 1861.
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Luigi Galimberti became a canon of the Lateran Basilica in 1868.
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Luigi Galimberti launched his career as a journalist and polemicist in 1870, working with Catholic magazines.
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Luigi Galimberti was promoted to director of the Journal de Rome at the end of 1881, but he fell out with its management and in October 1882 he founded the Moniteur de Rome to serve as a vehicle for his politically moderate views.
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Luigi Galimberti was named a canon of St Peter's Basilica in 1883 and an Apostolic Protonotary.
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Luigi Galimberti was credited with the appointed of a candidate the Holy See favored as Primate of Hungary and of a Pole rather than a German as archbishop of Gniezno-Posen.
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In Vienna, Galimberti proved a ready conduit of information to his German counterpart there.
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In 1889, following the double suicide of the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress at Mayerling, Luigi Galimberti kept the German ambassador apprised of the latest information on the case, what one historian calls "highly placed gossip", and he continued to answer related inquiries about the Vatican's rumored denial of Rudolf's request for an annulment of his marriage.
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On 25 June 1894, Luigi Galimberti was named head of the Vatican Secret Archives.
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Luigi Galimberti died from a throat ailment in Rome on 7 May 1896 at the age of 60.
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Luigi Galimberti was interred in the chapel of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome's Campo Verano cemetery.