His Eminence Antonio Agliardi
Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery
The then-archbishop pictured sometime in the 1880s.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	29 June 1908
Term ended	19 March 1915
Predecessor	Jean-Allarmet de Brogny
Successor	Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1899–1915) Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso in commendum (1903–15)
Previous post(s)	Apostolic Delegate to East India (1884–87) Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Maritima (1884–96) Pro-Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (1887–88) Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (1888–89) Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria (1889–93) Apostolic Nuncio to Austria-Hungary (1893–96) Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo (1896–99) Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals (1898–99) Vice-Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery (1903–08)
Orders
Ordination	22 December 1855
Consecration	12 October 1884 by Giovanni Simeoni
Created cardinal	22 June 1896 by Pope Leo XIII
Rank	Cardinal-Priest (1896–99)
Personal details
Born	4 September 1832 Cologno al Serio, Bergamo, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Died	19 March 1915(1915-03-19) (aged 82) Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Parents	Domenico Agliardi Lidia Vimercati
Alma mater	Roman Seminary Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare
Coat of arms

Antonio Agliardi (4 September 1832 – 19 March 1915) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.

Agliardi was born at Cologno al Serio, in what is now the Province of Bergamo.^[1]

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain. On his return he was appointed secretary to the Congregation of the Propaganda.^[1]

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.^[1]

In 1887 he again visited India, to carry out the terms of the concordat arranged with Portugal. The same year he was appointed secretary of the Congregation super negotiis ecclesiae extraordinariis. In 1889 he became papal Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria at Munich and in 1892 at Vienna. Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.^[1]

In the consistory of 1896 he was elevated to Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo. In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.^[2] In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church,^[1] and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

He died in Rome and was buried in Bergamo.^[3]

Agliardi's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:^[4]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Agliardi, Antonio". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 377.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Agliardi, Antonio". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 71.

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