Benedict XV

Benedict XV
(Giacomo della Chiesa)
1854-1922, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1914-22.

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orig. Giacomo Della Chiesa

born Nov. 21, 1854, Pegli, Kingdom of Sardinia
died Jan. 22, 1922, Rome, Italy

Pope (1914–22).

Ordained a priest in 1878, he entered the papal diplomatic service. He was made archbishop of Bologna in 1907 and cardinal in 1914. Elected pope a month after the outbreak of World War I, he tried to follow a policy of strict neutrality and concentrated the church's efforts on relief. He later made positive efforts toward reestablishing peace, though his principal attempt in 1917 to mediate the war was unsuccessful.

Benedict XV, 1921

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pope
original name  Giacomo Della Chiesa  
born Nov. 21, 1854, Pegli, Kingdom of Sardinia
died Jan. 22, 1922, Rome
 pope from 1914 to 1922.

      After graduating from the University of Genoa, he studied for the priesthood in the Collegio Capranica in Rome and entered the papal diplomatic service, later spending four years in Spain before being employed in the department of the secretary of state (1887). Pope Pius X made him archbishop of Bologna, (1907), and cardinal (1914). He was elected pope a month after the outbreak of World War I, and the greater part of his papacy was occupied with war problems.

      Trying to follow a policy of strict neutrality, Benedict abstained from condemning any action of the belligerents. He concentrated the church's efforts initially toward the alleviation of unnecessary suffering. Later he made positive efforts toward reestablishing peace, though hampered by the pro-Austrian sentiments of the majority of cardinals. When the United States entered the war and took up the Allies' attitude that peace could not be restored to Europe until Germany had been defeated, his principal attempt to mediate (1917) failed.

      By 1919 the papacy lacked the prestige it had enjoyed under Pope Leo XIII, and Benedict was excluded from the peace negotiations. His last years were concerned with readjusting the machinery of papal administration made necessary by the territorial changes that followed the war and with directives on missionary work. During this period official relations were resumed with France, and a British representative was accredited to the Vatican for the first time since the 17th century.

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