Raffaele Monaco La Valletta

Raffaele Monaco La Valletta

Styles of Raffaele Monaco La Valletta
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Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Albano Ostia (suburbicarian see)

Raffaele Monaco La Valletta S.T.D. J.U.D. (23 February 1827 – 14 July 1896) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office.

Education

Raffaele Monaco La Valletta was born in Aquila and was of a family from Chieti. He was educated at the Collegio Romano where he earned a doctorate in theology. He continued his studies at the La Sapienza University, Rome, where he earned a doctorate utriusque iuris (in both canon and civil law). He ended his studies at the Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles in 1846.

Priesthood

He was ordained in 1849. He was created Protonotary apostolic supernumerary in 1858. He worked as Pro-assessor for the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office from 1859.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme by Pope Pius IX in the consistory of 13 March 1868. He participated in the First Vatican Council from 1869-1870.

Episcopate

He was appointed titular archbishop of Eraclea on 9 January 1874 and consecrated by Pope Pius IX himself. He was appointed Vicar General of Rome by Pope Pius on 21 December 1876. He participated in the conclave of 1878 that elected Pope Leo XIII.

He was appointed Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope Leo in 1880. He served as Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, dispensing indulgences from 12 February 1884 until his death. He was also appointed to the office of Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, guarding the orthodoxy of Church doctrine from 1884 until his death.

He was elected to the order of bishops and the suburbicarian see of Albano on 24 March 1884. He was elected to the suburbicarian see of Ostia on 24 May 1889 and thus became Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. He died in 1896 in Agerola.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Edoardo Borromeo	Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals 27 February 1880 – 13 May 1881	Succeeded by Flavio Chigi
Preceded by Luigi Bilio	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary 12 February 1884 – 14 July 1896	Succeeded by Isidoro Verga
Preceded by Luigi Bilio	Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office 15 February 1884 – 14 July 1896	Succeeded by Lucido Parocchi
Preceded by Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano 24 March 1884 – 14 July 1896	Succeeded by Lucido Parocchi
Preceded by Flavio Chigi	Archpriest of the Basilica of St. John Lateran 24 March 1884 – 14 July 1896	Succeeded by Francesco Satolli
Preceded by Carlo Sacconi	Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals 24 May 1889 – 14 July 1896	Succeeded by Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano