Domenico Agostini

His Eminence

Domenico Agostini
Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal priest of Santa Maria della Pace
SeePatriarchate of Venice
Installed22 June 1877
Term ended31 December 1891
PredecessorGiuseppe Luigi Trevisanato
SuccessorGiuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
Other post(s)Previously Bishop of Chioggia
Orders
Created cardinal27 March 1882
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born31 May 1825
near Treviso, Italy
Died31 December 1891 (1892-01-01) (aged 66)
Venice, Italy
DenominationRoman Catholic Church

Domenico Agostini (31 May 1825 — 31 December 1891) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and Patriarch of Venice.

Born near Treviso, he studied in the local seminary, then in the University of Padua. He took a doctorate of philosophy and law, but he left the clerical state to join the citizen militia during the war with Austria in the period 1848–1850. He received the minor orders in 1850, after rejoining the clerical state.

He was ordained priest on 26 January 1851 in Venice and incardinated in the diocese of Treviso. Elected bishop of Chioggia on 27 October 1871. Then he was promoted to the patriarchal see of Venice on 22 June 1877.

Agostini was created cardinal priest in the consistory of 27 March 1882 by Pope Leo XIII with the title of Sant'Eusebio. Opted for title of Santa Maria della Pace on 7 June 1886.

Cardinal Agostini died on New Year's Eve, 1891 and was interred at the San Michele cemetery on the Isola di San Michele in Venice.


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