{{Short description|Italian Catholic cardinal (1870–1947)}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |image = Cardinal Salotti.JPG |caption = Salotti circa 1939 |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Carlo Salotti |title = [[Congregation for Rites|Prefect of the Congregation for Rites]] |church = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |appointed = 14 September 1938 |term_end = 24 October 1947 |predecessor = [[Camillo Laurenti]] |successor = [[Gaetano Cicognani]] |other_post = [[Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina]] (1939–47) |ordination = 22 September 1894 |consecration = 6 July 1930 |consecrated_by = [[Willem Marinus van Rossum|Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum]] |cardinal = 13 March 1933 {{small|([[in pectore]])}}<br/>16 December 1935 {{small|(revealed)}} |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius XI]] |rank = [[Cardinal-priest]] (1935–39)<br/>[[Cardinal-bishop]] (1939–47) |birth_name = Carlo Salotti |birth_date = 25 July 1870 |birth_place = [[Grotte di Castro]], [[Montefiascone]], [[Viterbo]], [[Papal States]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1947|10|24|1870|07|25}} |death_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] |parents = Giuseppe Salotti<br/>Orsola Capozzi |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[Philippopolis in Thracia|Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia]] (1930–35)|[[Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith|Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]] (1930–35)|[[San Bartolomeo all'Isola|Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola]] (1935–39)}} |alma_mater = [[Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare]] |motto = ''Labor pro fide'' }}
{{Infobox cardinalstyles| cardinal name=Carlo Salotti| dipstyle=His Eminence| offstyle=Your Eminence| See=[[Bishop of Palestrina|Palestrina]] ([[Suburbicarian diocese|suburbicarian]]) |}}
'''Carlo Salotti''' (25 July 1870 – 24 October 1947) was an Italian [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. He served as Secretary of the [[Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]] from 1930 until 1935 and as [[prefect]] of the [[Congregation of Rites]] from 1938 until his death, and was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] ''[[in pectore]]'' in 1933.
==Biography== Born in [[Grotte di Castro]], Carlo Salotti attended the [[seminary]] in [[Orvieto]] before going to [[Rome]], where he studied at the [[Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare]] and the [[Sapienza University of Rome|Royal University]]. He was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] to the [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priesthood]] on 22 September 1894, and then finished his studies in 1897. While performing his [[Parish (Catholic Church)|pastoral]] ministry in Rome until 1912, Salotti became a [[professor]] at his ''[[alma mater]]'' of the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apollinare'' in 1902. On 20 July 1915 he was raised to the rank of [[Monsignor|Domestic Prelate of His Holiness]]. He entered the [[Roman Curia]] on 10 July 1915 as assessor of the [[Congregation of Rites]] and subpromoter of the Faith, later becoming full [[Devil's advocate|Promoter of the Faith]] in 1925.
On 30 June 1930, Salotti was appointed [[Titular see of Philippopolis in Thracia|Titular Archbishop of Philippopolis in Thracia]] by [[Pope Pius XI]], and Secretary of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples|Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]], where he served under Cardinals [[Willem Marinus van Rossum|van Rossum]] and [[Pietro Fumasoni Biondi]], and [[Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]] four days later, on 3 July. He received his [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|episcopal consecration]] on the following 6 July from Cardinal [[Willem van Rossum]], [[Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer|CSsR]], with Bishops [[Luigi Olivarès]], [[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]], and [[Giovanni Rosi]] serving as [[Consecrator|co-consecrators]], in the [[basilica]] of [[Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio]]. During his tenure as rector of the Urbaniana University, he founded the [[Scientific Missionary Institute]] of the same university.
Salotti praised Pope Pius XI for his dedication to [[Missionary|missionary activity]] on [[Radio Vaticana|Vatican Radio]] in October 1931,<ref>''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081215022258/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742501,00.html Bathed Pages] October 26, 1930</ref> and the Pope appreciated Salotti's work as Secretary of the Congregation and accordingly elevated the Bishop to the [[College of Cardinals]] on 13 March 1933 but did so only anonymously (''[[in pectore]]''), so as to allow him to continue his work in that field.<ref>''Time''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018034029/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,826222-2,00.html Three in Pectore] April 11, 1960</ref> His appointment as [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal-Priest]] of [[San Bartolomeo all'Isola]] was published in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 16 December 1935. On 14 September 1938, Salotti was named [[Prefect]] of the Congregation of Rites and [[Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 1939|participated]] in the [[Papal conclave, 1939|1939 papal conclave]] that selected [[Pope Pius XII]], who advanced him to [[Bishop of Palestrina|Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina]] on 11 December 1939.
Salotti died from a [[liver]] ailment<ref>''Time''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110203125325/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779425,00.html Milestones] 3 November 1947</ref> in Rome, at age 77. He is buried in his native Grotte di Castro.
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