Pietro Ostini was an Italian papal diplomat and Cardinal.
10 Facts About Pietro Ostini
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Pietro Ostini was Professor of Church History at the Collegio Romano, both before and after the deportation of Pope Pius VII to France and the French occupation of Rome.
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Pius was determined to deport him to Corsica, but Bishop Giuseppe Menocchio, the Pope's confessor, who had remained in Rome during the occupation, intervened and pointed out the good work that Pietro Ostini had done in converting a number of prominent Protestants to the Catholic faith.
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The Pope eventually became convinced that Pietro Ostini had already undergone a radical change in outlook toward Napoleon and the French.
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Pietro Ostini entered the papal diplomatic corps after the deaths of Pius VII and Cardinal Consalvi, and served as Internuncio at Vienna from 1824 to 1827.
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Pietro Ostini was named titular Archbishop of Tarsus on 9 April 1827, and consecrated by Cardinal Giacomo Giustiniani.
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Pietro Ostini served in Lucerne as Nuncio to the Swiss Confederation in 1828, where he signed the Conventions that incorporated the Thurgau and the Aargau into the newly organized diocese of Berne.
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Pietro Ostini was named a cardinal in the consistory of 30 September 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI, but the appointment was kept secret until the day that he was transferred to the diocese of Jesi on 11 July 1836.
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Pietro Ostini resigned the diocese of Jesi on 19 December 1841, in anticipation of being named Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars.
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Cardinal Pietro Ostini became bishop of Albano on 3 April 1843.