Camillo Siciliano di Rende

Camillo Siciliano di Rende, sometimes Siciliano di Rende (9 June 1847 – 16 May 1897) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Benevento from 1879 until his death in 1897. He was also Bishop of Tricarico from 1877 to 1879 and Apostolic Nuncio to France from 1882 to 1887. He was made a cardinal in 1887.

Biography Camillo Siciliano di Rende was born in Naples on 9 June 1847 into a noble family, the son of the Marquis Giovanni di Rende. The family name was "Siciliano" and its title "di Rende". (Nineteenth-century sources refer to the family by their title of nobility.) An 1897 Italian essay says his father was il Marchese Giovanni di Rende and his mother la Marchesa di Rende; it refers to . He received his episcopal consecration on 1 January 1878 from Cardinal Flavio Chigi. Pope Leo XIII made him a member of the papal nobility as Assistant to the Pontifical Throne on 20 August 1878. He was appointed Archbishop of Benevento on 12 May 1879.

He was named Apostolic Nuncio to France on 26 October 1882, but Pope Leo granted his request to retain the see of Benevento, to which he eventually returned. When made a cardinal, he remained in Paris as pro-nuncio until the appointment of his successor. He received his red biretta and was assigned the titular church of San Sisto on 26 May 1887. He was not quite forty years old and the youngest member of the College of Cardinals.

He died suddenly of pneumonia on 16 May 1897 at the abbey of Montecassino, where he had stopped en route to Rome where he planned to attend the canonization ceremony for Anthony Zaccaria.