Giovanni Tacci Porcelli

Giovanni Tacci Porcelli was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Secretary of the Congregation for Oriental Churches from 1922 to 1927, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921.

Tacci Porcelli was born in Mogliano to Professor Luigi Tacci and his wife Maria Monti Guarnieri. He received Confirmation onDecember 1871, and studied at the seminary in Tolentino, the Pontifical Roman Seminary , and the elite Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Ordained to the priesthood onSeptember 1886, Tacci Porcelli then did pastoral work in Fermo and Rome until 1895, and was later raised to the rank of Domestic Chamberlain of His Holiness. He also served as Dean of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, a member of the Commission of Pontifical Schools, and an ecclesiasticus of several monasteries.

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