Mario Mattei

Mario Mattei was born on 6 September 1792 in Pergola, Marche.

He was educated at the Collegio Ghislieri, a Roman college, and at the La Sapienza University where he received a doctorate in utroque iure) and later attended the Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles in 1810.[1] Around 1817, he was ordained a priest.

He was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Gregory XVI in 1832 and was subsequently appointed to the following posts:[2]

• 1832 – Cardinal-Deacon of St Maria in Aquiro
• 1842 – Cardinal-Priest of St Maria degli Angeli
• 1844 – Bishop of Frascati
• 1854 – Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
• 1860 – Bishop of Ostia and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals

In 1843, Mattei was appointed as Arch-Priest of St. Peter's Basilica and held this position until his death in 1870.

Records indicate that Mattei was appointed Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals twice; between 1834 and 1835 and between 1848 and 1850 and he was also appointed to be the Dean of the College of Cardinals in 1860. He was a participant in the First Vatican Council and in the Papal Conclave of 1846 that elected Pope Pius IX.