CASELLI, CARLO FRANCESCO. - Cardinal, b. at Alessandria on 20 Oct. 1740, d. at Parma on 19 Apr. 1828. Having entered the Servites, he first became secretary and then, in 1792, provincial of his Order. After serving as consultor of the Congregation of Rites, he was sent in 1801 by Pius VII to Paris together with Card. Consalvi for the conclusion of the Concordat between the Holy See and France. Then appointed archbishop of Sida, on 19 Aug. 1802 he received the purple with the title of St. Marcellus. On 28 May 1804 he became bishop of Parma, where he proved himself an effective sacred orator.

In 1811, at the general Council of Paris, he was able to defend with great energy, against the imperial will, the principle of the freedom of the Church. He renounced the archbishopric of Paris that had been offered to him and became counselor to Maria Luisa, duchess of Parma. Subsequently he was elected prior of the Constantinian Order of St. George. He was buried in the cathedral of Parma.

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BIBL.: A Garbarini, Orazione in morte del card. C. F. C. Parma 1828; G. Gallavresi, s. v. in Diz. del Risorg. naz., II, p. 384.

Emma Santovito

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Caselli, Carlo Francesco

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