Giuseppe Callegari

Styles of Giuseppe Callegari
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Padua

Giuseppe Callegari (November 4, 1841 – April 14, 1906) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Padua from 1882 until his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1903.

Biography

Giuseppe Callegari was born in Venice, and received the Sacrament of Confirmation on November 23, 1851. He studied at the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, receiving the clerical tonsure on December 18, 1858, and the diaconate on December 19, 1863. Callegari was ordained to the priesthood on March 26, 1864, and then served as professor of the secondary-school courses and of moral theology (1865–1873) at the patriarchal seminary. He did pastoral work in Venice from 1865 to 1880 as well, and was named counselor of its ecclesiastical tribunal in 1878 and later its prosynodal examiner. A contributing writer to Il Veneto Cattolico, he became a very close friend of Giuseppe Sarto, the future Pope Pius X.

On February 28, 1880, Callegari was appointed Bishop of Treviso by Pope Leo XIII, who granted him a dispensation for not holding a degree. He received his episcopal consecration on the following March 11 from Patriarch Domenico Agostini, with Bishops Giovanni Berengo and Giuseppe Apollonio serving as co-consecrators, in St. Mark's Basilica. He was given the title of Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on August 24, 1882, and named Bishop of Padua on September 25 of that same year, whilst retaining the administration of Treviso until the appointment of his successor.

In 1892, Callegari was offered the patriarchate of Venice but declined, recommending Bishop Giuseppe Sarto instead. He also served as President of Società Scientifica dei Cattolici Italiani. Sarto, having been elected Pope on August 4, 1903, created Callegari Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in his first consistory, on the following November 9.

The Cardinal died in Padua, at age 64. He is buried in the shrine of Arcella.

External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church