Roman Catholic Cardinal. A native of Villa Santo Stefano, Domenico Jorio entered seminary in Ferentino, later furthering his studies the Pontifical Roman Seminary from where he obtained doctorates in theology and utroque iure in both canon and civil laws. Ordained priest in September 1891, he performed pastoral ministry in the diocese of Rome while serving as staff member of the Apostolic Datary between 1891 and 1918. Named privy chamberlain of His Holiness on November 15, 1901, he was reappointed on December 16, 1903 following the demise of Pope Leo XIII and again on September 9, 1914 following the death of Pope Pius X. Appointed domestic prelate of His Holiness on March 11, 1915 and deputy for the Roman monasteries in 1916, he went on to serve as secretary of the Apostolic Datary until being named undersecretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments on October 20, 1918, receiving the title of protonotary apostolic on the following November 30. Appointed ordinary of the Pious Union of St. Paul in 1920, Jorio also served as secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments and later as deputy for the Economy of the Pontifical Roman Seminary. Pope Pius XI created him cardinal deacon in the consistory of December 16, 1935 with the deaconry of Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine, appointing him prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments four days later. Opting for the order of cardinal priests, his deaconry was elevated pro illa vice to title on February 18, 1946. The Cardinal died of a heart attack in his apartment at the palace of the Holy Office. Following the celebration of a solemn funeral mass at the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, he was laid to rest inside the church of Sant'Apollinare, his title.