Complex sentence: Ordained a priest in 1869 and consecrated a bishop in 1885, he served as nuncio to Belgium and then to France before being elevated to Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of June 22,1896.
Split into simpler sentences: Ordained a priest in 1869 and consecrated a bishop in 1885, he served as nuncio to Belgium and then to France. He elevated to Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of June 22,1896.