1. Pietro Ciriaci was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council in the Roman Curia from 1954 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
10 Facts About Pietro Ciriaci
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Pietro Ciriaci entered the Roman Curia as a scrittore of the Apostolic Penitentiary on 21 January 1911, and was promoted to registratore of the same on the following 15 December.
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Pietro Ciriaci was named Undersecretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on 14 May 1921, and a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 27 March 1922.
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On 15 February 1928, Pietro Ciriaci was appointed Nuncio to Czechoslovakia and Titular Archbishop of Tarsus by Pope Pius XI.
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Pietro Ciriaci was named Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal on 9 January 1934.
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Pietro Ciriaci was named Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council on 20 March 1954, and President of the Pontifical Commission for the Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law on 31 May 1955.
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Pietro Ciriaci participated in the 1958 papal conclave that elected Pope John XXIII and attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.
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Pietro Ciriaci served as a cardinal elector in the conclave of 1963 that elected Pope Paul VI.
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Pietro Ciriaci died in Rome on 30 December 1966 at age 81.
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Pietro Ciriaci was buried in a chapel near the same basilica.