Roman Catholic Cardinal. Genazzano born Vincenzo Vannutelli was the younger brother of Serafino Vannutelli (1834-1915), who likewise was a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Receiving his education at the Pontifical Gregorian University and later at the Pontifical Athenaeum of S. Apollinare in Rome, Vincenzo was ordained priest on December 23, 1860. Successively, he was appointed professor of theology at the Vatican Seminary and beneficiary of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica. Named domestic prelate of His Holiness with the title of Monsignor, he entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See and was named auditor of the internunciature in Holland in 1863 and successively, auditor of the nunciature in Belgium in 1866, becoming later its chargé d'affaires. Appointed pro-substitute of the Secretariat of State and pro-secretary of the Cipher on September 29, 1875, he was named substitute and secretary on December 29, 1876 and auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota on May 11, 1878. Elected archbishop of the titular see of Sardes and named apostolic delegate in Constantinople and vicar apostolic of the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, with the main charge being that of solving the question of the Armenian Schism, he received his episcopal consecration on February 2, 1880 in Rome from Cardinal Giovanni Simeoni. Appointed apostolic internuncio in Brazil on December 22, 1882, he never occupied the post because on his return from Russia where he represented the Pope at the coronation of Czar Alexander III, was transferred to Portugal as nuncio on October 4, 1883. There, he negotiated a concordat to regulate the relations between the State and the Church in the Portuguese possession in the Indies. Created cardinal and reserved 'in pectore' by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of December 30, 1889, his name was ultimately published in the consistory of June 23, 1890, with Msgr Vincenzo receiving the title of San Silvestro in Capite with dispensation for having a brother in the Sacred College of Cardinals. Appointed prefect of the Economy of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in 1892, president of the General Administration of the Chamber of Despoilments on June 25, 1894 and archpriest of the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on December 16, 1896, he acted as legate 'a latere' for the opening and closing of the Holy Door at the Liberian Basilica at the beginning of the Holy Year of 1900. Opting for the order of cardinal bishops and the suburbicarian see of Palestrina on April 19 of that year while keeping 'in commendam' his title until December 7, 1916, he went on to serve as prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council and of the Special Congregation for the Revision of the Provincial Councils, prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity and member of the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law from April 4, 1904 until 1917, and prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature. Papal legate to various International Eucharistic Congresses, he served as datary of His Holiness from December 15, 1914 until his death. Decorated with the grand cross of the Austrian Order of Sankt Stefan in 1914, he became dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals and bishop of the suburbicarian see of Ostia, retaining the suburbicarian see of Palestrina on December 6, 1915, succeeding therefore his brother Cardinal Serafino in the deanship of the named College. Appointed prefect of the Sacred Ceremonial Congregation on December 6, 1915, he acted again as legate 'a latere' for the opening and closing of the Holy Door at the Liberian basilica at the beginning and closing of the Holy Year of 1925. The Cardinal died in Rome in 1930, being by that time, the the oldest member of the College of Cardinals, and was laid to rest in the crypt of the chapel of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide at the local Campo Verano Cemetery, next to his brother, Cardinal Serafino.