Alderano Cibo

Carlo Maratta : Portrait of Cardinal Alderano Cibo

Epitaph Cibos in Santa Maria del Popolo , Rome

Alderano Cibo (born July 16, 1613 in Genoa , † July 22, 1700 in Rome ) was a cardinal from the Cibo-Malaspina family .

Life

Cardinal Alderano Cibo's coat of arms

Cibo, a descendant of Pope Innocent VIII , came to Rome at a young age and became papal prelate under Urban VIII . His successor Innocent X appointed him papal majordomo in 1644 .

In the consistory of March 6, 1645, the Pope accepted Cibo as a cardinal priest of Santa Pudenziana in the college of cardinals . In the following years he represented the interests of the Pope as a papal legate in Urbino , Romagna and Ferrara . Cardinal Cibo participated in 1655 in the conclave that Alexander VII elected.

Alexander VII appointed him bishop of Jesi on April 24, 1656 . Nothing is known about his episcopal ordination . Cardinal Cibo attended the conclave in 1667 and became cardinal priest of Santa Prassede the following year . From 1669 to 1670 he participated in the election of Clement X in part. On December 10, 1671, he resigned as Bishop of Jesi. Pope Innocent XI. appointed Cibo after his election in 1676 as cardinal secretary of state . In 1677 he became cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina and cardinal proto priest . On February 6, 1679 Innocent XI took him. as Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina in the rank of Cardinal Bishops, in the following year he assigned the diocese of Frascati to him. In 1683 he appointed him Secretary of the Holy Office and Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina . In 1687 Cardinal Cibo finally became Cardinal Dean and thus Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri . He still took part in the conclave in 1689 and 1691 and died in 1700, a week after his 87th birthday.

literature

• Enrico Stumpo:  Cibo, Alderano. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 25:  Chinzer – Cirni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1981.

Web links

• Cibo, Alderano. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 30, 2017.
• Entry on Alderano Cibo on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 30, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Niccolò Albergati Ludovisi	Cardinal Dean Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri 1687–1700	Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne
Cesare Facchinetti	Secretary of the Holy Office 1683–1700	Galeazzo Marescotti
Niccolo Albergati-Ludovisi	Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina 1683–1687	Pietro Vito Ottoboni
Carlo Rossetti	Cardinal Bishop of Frascati 1680–1683	Pietro Vito Ottoboni
Cesare Facchinetti	Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina 1679–1680	Lorenzo Raggi
Francesco Nerli	Cardinal Secretary of State 1676–1689	Giambattista Rubini
Giacomo Corradi	Bishop of Jesi 1656–1671	Lorenzo Cibo