Alberico Archinto

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Anton Raphael Mengs : Portrait of Cardinal Alberico Archinto (mid-18th century)

Alberico Archinto (born November 8, 1698 in Milan , † September 30, 1758 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

The son of Carlo Archinto , who came from a patrician family in Milan, studied law in Pavia and completed his studies with a Dr. jur. utr. from. Active at the Curia in Rome since 1724 , the Pope appointed him as Apostolic Protonotary on October 10, 1724 . Appointed trainee lawyer at the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature on September 23, 1728 , he was papal deputy delegate in Bologna from 1730 to 1731 .

The Commendate Abbot of S. Maria di Brera, San Pietro e Paolo di Viboldone and S. Pietro e S. Calogero di Civate, was ordained a priest on May 26, 1736 .

After Archinto was appointed titular archbishop of Nicaea on September 30, 1739 , the Pope elevated him to assistant throne on October 1, 1739 . The episcopal ordination donated to him on November 1, 1739 in Milan Ludovico Calini , the bishop of Crema .

Since November 17, 1739 as nuncio in Florence , he became nuncio in Poland on March 1, 1746 . Shortly after March 12, 1754, he returned to Rome, where he was vice camerlengo from September 14, 1754 to April 5, 1756 .

Created cardinal on April 5, 1756 Archinto received on 24 May 1756 Cardinal Priest the titular church of San Matteo in Via Merulana . But already on September 20, 1756 he exchanged it for the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso .

Appointed Cardinal Secretary of State on September 10, 1756 , ten days later he became Vice Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church.

Alberico Archinto died on September 30, 1758 around 10:00 p.m.

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predecessor Office successor
Silvio Valenti Gonzaga Cardinal Secretary of State
1756–1758
Ludovico Maria Torriggiani