Alessandro Spada

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Alessandro Spada (born April 4, 1787 in Rome , † December 16, 1843 there ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

He was the son of Prince Giuseppe Spada Veralli and his wife Giacinta Ruspoli, and so from both parents he belonged to noble families in Rome and Bologna. The father's family included the cardinals Bernardino Spada and Fabrizio Spada , his mother was a niece of Cardinal Bartolomeo Ruspoli and through her mother half-sister of Cardinal Benedetto Naro . His older brother Leonida Spada (* 1779) was also a prelate of the Roman Curia. Alessandro Spada attended the Collegio in Parma and the Collegio Nazareno in Rome.

Church career

On August 14, 1815, Alessandro Spada entered the service of the Curia as papal house prelate and on August 31 of the same year he became a trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature . On March 9, 1816, he was appointed ponens of the Apostolic Property Management. After his brother Leonida resigned as auditor of the Roman Rota on December 19, 1816 for health reasons and died a little later, Alessandro Spada was appointed to the Rota by Pope Pius VII on April 8, 1817 for Bologna. On June 25, 1827, he became Dean of the Tribunal and on July 25 of the same year he was made Consultor of the Holy Office .

In the consistory of June 23, 1834 Pope Gregory XVI. him in pectore cardinal, this was announced in the consistory of April 6, 1835. The newly appointed cardinal deacon Alessandro Spada received the cardinal's hat on April 9 of the same year and Santa Maria in Cosmedin on July 24, 1835 as the title deaconry . From 1836 to May 19, 1837 he was treasurer of the Holy College of Cardinals and from August 9, 1839 he was papal legate in Forlì for three years .

He was buried in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella .

literature

  • Philippe Bountry: Le sacré collège des cardinaux . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 34–35 (French, online edition [accessed April 22, 2020]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Philippe Bountry: Le sacré collège des cardinaux. Margin no. 711
  2. ↑ a b c Spada, Alessandro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed April 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Spada, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1843
Place of death Rome