Charles Januarius Edward Acton, (
1803 -
June 23,
1847), second son of
John Francis Edward Acton, after education in
England and taking his degree at
Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1823, entered the
Academia Ecclesiastica at
Rome. He left this with the rank of
prelate, in 1828 was secretary to the
nuncio at
Paris and was made vice-legate of
Bologna shortly afterwards. He became secretary of the congregation of the
Disciplina Regolare, and auditor of the
Apostolic Chamber[?] under
Pope Gregory XVI, who made Acton a cardinal in 1842.
Cardinal Acton was protector of the English College[?] at Rome, and had been mainly instrumental in the increase, in 1840, of the English vicariates-general to eight, which paved the way for the restoration of the hierarchy by Pope Pius IX in 1850. He died on 23 June 1847.
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