DE ANGELIS, FILIPPO. - Cardinal, b. 16 April 1792 at Ascoli, d. 8 July 1877 at Fermo. Apostolic visitor of the diocese of Forlì, titular bishop of Leuca on 6 July 1826, then in 1830 titular archbishop of Carthage, he was sent by Pius VIII as nuncio to Switzerland. He remained at Lucerne until 1835, energetically defending the rights of the Catholic Church against the encroachments of liberalism. From Lucerne he had to move to Schwyz and then to give up the diplomatic post, and for some time he was bishop of Montefiascone and Corneto.
Created a cardinal in pectore by Gregory XVI in the Consistory of 13 Sept. 1838, he was published in that of 8 July 1839, and then appointed archbishop of Fermo in 1842. At the accession of Pius IX, he was not favorable to the granting of the amnesty, nor to the policy inaugurated by the new Pontiff. At the flight of Pius IX to Gaeta, Cardinal De A., by order of Mazzini, was arrested on the night of 11 March 1849 and confined in the fortress of Ancona until 19 June, when the Austrians freed him. In 1860, upon the entry of the Piedmontese troops into Fermo, the cardinal was deported to Turin, given his intransigent position with regard to liberalism. He returned to his diocese in 1866, tempering his intransigence with greater leniency. For his merits he was appointed camerlengo of Holy Church.
Bibliography3 worksEusebio da Monte Santo, Elogio funebre del card. F. De A., Roma 1872; G. Leti, Fermo e il card. F. De A., ivi 1902; G. Minozzi, r. v. in Diz
BIBL.: Eusebio da Monte Santo, Elogio funebre del card. F. De A., Roma 1872; G. Leti, Fermo e il card. F. De A., ivi 1902; G. Minozzi, r. v. in Diz. Ritorg., II, pp. 847-48. On the nunciature in Switzerland cf. G. Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, LXXII, Venezia 1855, pp. 119-21.
Furlani, Silvio. “De Angelis, filippo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 1253–1254. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/de-angelis-filippo.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “De Angelis, filippo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1253–1254. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/de-angelis-filippo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_de_angelis_filippo,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {De Angelis, filippo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {1253--1254},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/de-angelis-filippo}
}
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