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Filippo Camassei (14 September 1848 – 18 January 1921) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1906 to 1919. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1919.
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Filippo Camassei (14 September 1848 – 18 January 1921) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1906 to 1919. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1919.
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Biography Filippo Camassei was born in Rome, and studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary, from where he obtained his doctorates in theology and in canon and civil law. He was ordained to the priesthood on 12 April 1872, and then did pastoral work in Rome. In 1876, Camassei became private secretary to Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta, the Vicar-General of Rome. He was later made Rector of the Pontifical Pius Seminary in 1874, and of the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide on 10 December 1889. In June 1895, he traveled to Maynooth in County Kildare, Ireland to represent Pope Leo XIII at the centennial celebrations of St Patrick's Pontifical University. He was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 13 April 1897. On 18 March 1904, Camassei was appointed Archbishop of Naxos by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 10 April from Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti, with Archbishops Pietro Gasparri and Edmund Stonor serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide. Camassei was promoted to Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem on 6 December 1906. In making his solemn entry into Jerusalem on 19 March 1907,…