Roman Catholic Cardinal. The son of a municipal employee, Luigi Galimberti received his education at the Roman Seminary, earning doctorates in philosophy, theology and utroque iure in both canon and civil laws. Ordained priest in December 1858, he lectured theology at the Pontifical Urban Athenaeum de Propaganda Fide between 1861 and 1878, serving in the meantime as as director of the "Journal de Rome" and the "Moniteur de Rome". Canon of the chapters of the Lateran Basilica and of St. Peter's, Galimberti was named secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on June 28, 1886, taking part in the difficult negotiations to end the Kulturkampf in Berlin the following year. Appointed apostolic nuncio in Austria, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular archbishopric see of Nicea on June 5, 1887 in Vienna, from Cardinal Cölestin Ganglbauer, then ordinary of the named see. Pope Leo XIII created him cardinal priest in the consistory of January 16, 1893 with the title of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo. Decorated with the Grand Cross of the Austrian Order of Sankt Stefan in 1893, he was named archivist of the Holy See on June 25 of the following year. Passing away in his native Rome, the Cardinal's body was exposed in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina and later buried in the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide inside the local Campo Verano Cemetery.
Roman Catholic Cardinal. The son of a municipal employee, Luigi Galimberti received his education at the Roman Seminary, earning doctorates in philosophy, theology and utroque iure in both canon and civil laws. Ordained priest in December 1858, he lectured theology at the Pontifical Urban Athenaeum de Propaganda Fide between 1861 and 1878, serving in the meantime as as director of the "Journal de Rome" and the "Moniteur de Rome". Canon of the chapters of the Lateran Basilica and of St. Peter's, Galimberti was named secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on June 28, 1886, taking part in the difficult negotiations to end the Kulturkampf in Berlin the following year. Appointed apostolic nuncio in Austria, he received his episcopal consecration with the titular archbishopric see of Nicea on June 5, 1887 in Vienna, from Cardinal Cölestin Ganglbauer, then ordinary of the named see. Pope Leo XIII created him cardinal priest in the consistory of January 16, 1893 with the title of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo. Decorated with the Grand Cross of the Austrian Order of Sankt Stefan in 1893, he was named archivist of the Holy See on June 25 of the following year. Passing away in his native Rome, the Cardinal's body was exposed in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina and later buried in the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide inside the local Campo Verano Cemetery.
Bio by: Eman Bonnici
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