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Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso (20 June 1796 in Sinnai archdiocese of Cagliari Sardinia – 30 March 1878 in Rome Italy) was the dean of the College of Cardinals during the last part of the record long reign of Pope Pius IX.The issue of an ancient and noble Catalan Sardinian family he did his early education wholly in Sardinia which was unusual for someone who was later to become a major curial official in those days as most curial officials had to come from the Papal States.
