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Serafino Secchi (died 1628) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1612 to 1628.
The Master of the Order of Preachers is the leader of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans.
Serafino Secchi was from Pavia and a member of the Dominican Order. [1] Immediately before being elected master at the chapter of 1612, he had been the procurator general of the previous master, Agostino Galamini. [1] At the chapter of 1612, Philip III of Spain pushed for a Spanish candidate for master, but the chapter nevertheless chose Secchi, another Italian. [1]
Pavia is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 kilometres south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,000. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards from 572 to 774.
The Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally carry the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning of the Order of Preachers. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and affiliated lay or secular Dominicans.
A chapter is one of several bodies of clergy in Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Nordic Lutheran churches or their gatherings.
While he was master, the French nicknamed him "Le Sec" (The Dry One) because of his good memory and attention to detail. [1] During his mastership, all non-Dominicans were barred from preaching in Dominican churches. [1] He created special courses on preaching for the first time in the order's history. [1] He forbade any member of the order to appeal to the Holy See without having first appealed a case to the order's procurator general. [1]
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He died in 1628. [1]
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| Preceded by Agostino Galamini | Master of the Order of Preachers 1612–1628 | Succeeded by Niccolò Ridolfi |
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