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Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
 Pope Pius IX
255th Pope of the Catholic
Church
 His Biography
 He was born on 13th May, 1792, Senigallia,
Papal States (Italy).
 It was his desire to join the army, found
unfit, he was rejected by the army,
therefore, he began to study theology.
 Ordained Priest on 10th April, 1819.
 He was appointed an archbishop of Spoleto
on 21st May in 1827 by Pope Leo XII.
And then bishop of Imola And a cardinal on
(Italy) 17th Feb, 1832 by
14th December, by
Pope Gregory XVI. (with
a personal title as an Pope Gregory XVI
Archbishop) in 1840,

And pope on 16th

Died on 7th Feb,
June in 1846 on the
death of Gregory
1878, aged 85,
XVI (1831–46). in Rome.
His official Coat of Arm as
Pope
 Original Name of the Pope
Pius IX, original name Giovanni Maria Mastai-
Ferretti,
He took the name of Pius in respect to the memory
of Pius VII, who had been his friend and who had, like
him, been bishop of Imola.
Real Images of the Pope Pius IX
 Years of His
Pontificate
He was a Pope from (1846–
78) whose pontificate was the
longest in history, after St.
Peter’s
for 31.6 years
Immediate Position He Held Before
Becoming Pope
Before he was
elected as a Pope,
he was a bishop of
Imola in 1832.
 His Secretaries of the State
1. Tommaso Pasquale Gizzi (8 August 1846 – 5 July 1847)
2. Gabriele Ferretti (17 July 1847 – 31 December 1848)
3. Giuseppe Bofondi (1 February – 10 March 1848)
4. Giacomo Antenelli (10 March – 3 May 1848) (first time)
5. Anton Orioli (5 May – 4 June 1848), cardinal secretary ad
interim
6. Giovanni Soglia Ceroni (4 June – 29 November 1848)
7. Giacomo Antonelli (29 November 1848 – 6 November
1876) (second time)
8. Giovanni Simeoni (18 December 1876 – 7 February
1878)
 Condemn
Quanta
ing
cura Current
(1864) Errors

Important Documents of His Pontificate

 Against the
Qui pluribus
dangers of
(1846) Liberalism

Ubi primum on the

Immaculate
(1849)
Conception;

Dealing with the conditions for

Ad universalis admission to religious orders
of men in which solemn vows
Ecclesiae (1862) are prescribed.
 Consistories for Creating
New Cardinals
Consistories: Pius IX
created 123 new
cardinals (in 23
Consistories).
 LEGACY
• Battle against false liberalism
• Papal Infallibility
• His promotion of the inner life of the Church
• Convocation of the Vatican Council I
• The loss of the temporal power
of the Pope
 CANONIZATIONS AND DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH
BEATIFICATIONS
• Pope Pius IX canonized 52 • Pius IX named three
saints during his new Doctors of the
pontificate. Church:
• Notable saints such as the
• Hilary of Poitiers,
Martyrs of Japan, Josaphat
Kuntsevych and Nicholas
naming him, “Doctor of
Pieck. the Divinity of Christ”,
• He beatified 222 • Alphonsus Liguori,
individuals throughout his naming him, “Most
papacy, like Benedict Zealous Doctor”, and
Joseph Labre, Peter Claver • Francis de Sales,
and his two predecessors naming him, “Doctor of
Popes Eugene II and Urban Charity”.
V.
Any Eventual Process of Canonization

• He was beatified on 3rd Sep

in 2000 by Pope John Paul
II (1978-2005) together
with Pope John XXIII.
• His feast is celebrated on
February 7.