Mario Mocenni

His Eminence Mario Mocenni
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	18 May 1894
Term ended	14 November 1904
Predecessor	Luigi Serafini
Successor	Francesco di Paola Cassetta
Previous post(s)	Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis (1877-93) Apostolic Delegate to Colombia (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Costa Rica (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Nicaragua (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Honduras (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Ecuador (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Peru (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Bolivia (1877-82) Apostolic Delegate to Venezuela (1877-82) Apostolic Internuncio to Brazil (1882) Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola (1893-94)
Orders
Ordination	20 December 1845
Consecration	12 August 1877 by Alessandro Franchi
Created cardinal	16 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII
Rank	Cardinal-Priest (1893-94) Cardinal-Bishop (1894-1904)
Personal details
Born	Mario Mocenni 22 January 1823 Montefiascone, Viterbo, Papal States
Died	14 November 1904(1904-11-14) (aged 81) Apostolic Palace, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Buried	Campo Verano

Styles of Mario Mocenni
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Sabina (suburbicarian)

Mario Mocenni (22 January 1823—14 November 1904) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who served both in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893.

Born in Montefiascone, Mario Mocenni was ordained to the subdiaconate on 21 September 1844, the diaconate on 27 May 1845 and the priesthood on 20 December 1845. He was later made a Privy Chamberlain supernumerary of His Holiness, and auditor of nunciature to Austria.^[1]

On 24 July 1877 he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis in Phoenicia by Pope Pius IX, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following 12 August from Cardinal Alessandro Franchi in Rome. Mocenni was later named Apostolic Delegate to Ecuador, Peru, Nueva Granada, Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua on 14 August that year. On 28 March 1882 he became Internuncio to the Empire of Brazil.^[1]

Seven months later, on 18 October 1882, Mocenni entered the service of the Roman Curia upon being appointed Substitute, or deputy, of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola in the consistory of 16 January 1893. He later opted to become a Cardinal Bishop, assuming the suburbicarian see of Sabina on 18 May 1894. As Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, he was also perpetual abbot of Farfa.^[2] Mocenni participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which selected Pope Pius X.^[1]

Mocenni had a long history of supporting the Church in diplomacy and finances.^[2]

The Cardinal died in Rome, at age 81. After lying in state in the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, he was buried in the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide in the Campo Verano cemetery.

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