Angelo Jacobini

Angelo Jacobini (25 April 1825 – 3 March 1886) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his entire career in the Roman Curia. He was made a cardinal in 1882.

Biography Angelo Maria Jacobini was born in Genzano on 25 April 1825. He was a cousin of Luigi Jacobini, who was made a cardinal in 1879.

He studied at the seminary in Albano and then at the Sapienza University of Rome.

In 1873, he gave testimony in Ireland in a lawsuit for defamation brought by a parish priest against Cardinal Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin; he contributed to Cullen's successful defense of his suspension of the priest.

He was appointed secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on 3 October 1875. He was named assessor of the Congregation of the Inquisition on 15 March 1877.

Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal deacon on 27 March 1882; he was assigned the deaconry of San Eustachio.

He died in Rome on 3 March 1886.