 He was elected to the order of cardinal bishops, taking the suburbicarian see of Palestrina on 13 March 1933.Pope Pius appointed him president of the Pontifical Commission for the Codification of the Oriental Canon Law on 23 November 1934, and president of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law on 12 December 1934.He died just short of his 66th birthday on 7 February 1936.