Antonio Gabriele Severoli

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Antonio Gabriele Severoli (born February 28, 1757 in Faenza , † September 8, 1824 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

He was the son of Count Carlo Severoli and the Marquise Anna Dorotea Guidi from Cesena. The Severoli belonged to the noblest families of the patriciate of Faenza and had multiple family relationships with members of the Roman Curia . A Nicolô Severoli had been consistorial advocate in the last quarter of the 17th century , and Antonio Gabriele Severoli's maternal uncle Romoaldo Guidi , head of the Santo Spirito Hospital and secretary of the Congregation for the Administration of Goods , was welcomed by his compatriot Pius VI. elevated to cardinal in June 1778.

Severoli attended the Jesuit college in Ravenna, later the University of Modena and finally from 1776 to 1779 the academy for the ecclesiastical nobility . Already in 1776 Pius VI. appointed him papal house prelate .

Church career

Antonio Gabriele Severoli was ordained a priest on December 18, 1779 . He returned to Faenza, where he became pastor of the Church of San Bernardo. Later he was Vicar General of Bishop Vitale Giuseppe de 'Buoi . On February 3, 1787 he received his doctorate from the University of Cesena to the Doctor iuris utriusque .

Pope Pius VI appointed him on April 23, 1787 Bishop of Fano . He was ordained bishop on May 13, 1787 by Cardinal Giovanni Carlo Boschi ; Co-consecrators were Bishop Pier Luigi Galletti OSB and the Bishop of Faenza , Domenico Mancinforte . In June 1798 Antonio Gabriele Severoli was exiled by French occupation troops to the town of Castrocaro in the Tuscan Apennines. He was only able to return to Fano in September of the following year .

He met Pope Pius VII for the first time in June 1800 during his stay in Fano on the return trip from the conclave in Venice . The following year, on September 18, 1801, Antonio Gabriele Severoli was made titular archbishop of Petra in Palestine and the Pope appointed him nuncio in Vienna. However, he kept the diocese of Fano until he was appointed Bishop of Viterbo and Toscanella on January 11, 1808 . During the Napoleonic occupation of Rome, he remained in Vienna and supported at the time of the restoration efforts of the cardinal secretary of state Consalvi to restore the Papal States .

Cardinalate

In the consistory of March 8, 1816 Antonio Gabriele Severoli was elevated to cardinal priest . He received the red hat on his return from Vienna on July 31, 1817, and on October 1 of the same year he was awarded Santa Maria della Pace as the titular church . From 1823 to 1824 he was the Datar of His Holiness . He took part in the conclave of 1823 , which Pope Leo XII. elected, and Giuseppe Cardinal Albani brought the veto of Emperor Franz I of Austria against an election of Severoli.

He died on the feast of the birth of Mary in 1824 after receiving the sacraments and was buried in the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva .

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. 689–697 (French, online edition [accessed June 25, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Severoli, Antonio Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Faenza
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1824
Place of death Rome