Bernardino Giraud

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Bernardino Giraud (born July 14, 1721 in Rome ; † May 5, 1782 there ) was Archbishop of Ferrara and Cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

His family was of French descent and moved from Lyon to Rome in the mid-17th century , where they had become wealthy through trading. They gained a title of nobility and acquired large estates. Among other things, they owned a palace in the Borgo , to which Bramante was attributed.

Bernardino was the third of the five children of Pietro Giraud and his wife Altilia Zagaroli. He learned philosophy and theology at the Collegio Tolomei in Siena, one of his teachers was Lorenzo Ricci , who later became the general of the Jesuits . He then studied at the University of Siena , where he received his doctorate on September 11, 1738, Doctor iuris utriusque . He returned to Rome in 1739 and received the tonsure from the Vice-tenant Archbishop Francesco Spada, through which he was accepted into the clergy . Since he patronage by Cardinal Luigi Maria Torrigiani and popes Benedict XIV. , And Clement XIII. enjoyed, he experienced a rapid rise within the Roman Curia . He became a trainee lawyer at the courts of justice of the Apostolic Signature on January 26, 1741 and was trainee lawyer in the Congregation for the Administration of Goods from September 1743 to 1747. After various other curial offices, he was appointed auditor of the Roman Rota in November 1762 after he had proven an income of 2,000 ducats . On May 13, 1763 he succeeded Pietro Frangipane, who died on November 15 of the previous year. The ordination received Bernardino Giraud on 19 March 1767th

Episcopate

On April 6, 1767, Bernardino Giraud was appointed titular archbishop of Damascus . He was ordained bishop on April 26th of the same year in a chapel of the Quirinal Palace by Pope Clement XIII. personally; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Scipione Borghese , Prefect of the Papal House , and Curia Bishop Ignazio Reali . Bernardino Giraud served as Apostolic Nuncio to France from April 28, 1767 to 1773 . On May 28, 1767 he became Papal Assistant to the Throne . Giraud knew how to advance his efforts to become cardinal through an extensive network of relationships: this included the French foreign minister in Versailles, the Duke of Aiguillon from the house of Le Plessis de Richelieu , as well as the French ambassador in Rome François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis supported him in this. Because the Pope was reluctant, King Louis XV finally intervened . with a letter to Clemens XIV , in which he recalled certain promises that Clemens would have made in a letter of September 26, 1770. In July 1771 Giraud became Commendatabab of Gorze ; he kept the post after the end of his nunciature.

Cardinalate

So Clemens XIV finally created Bernardino in the consistory of June 17, 1771 as cardinal in pectore and made this public in the consistory of April 19, 1773. His brother Stefano Giraud brought him the red biretta and apostolic letter of April 24, 1773 as apostolic legate to Viterbo, where Giraud stayed on a trip from Rome to France. He received the cardinal's hat on July 15, 1773 and Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio as titular church on December 20, 1773. He was a member of the Congregations for the Consistory, for the Examination of Bishops, the Council Congregation , the Congregation for Bishops and Regulars , the Dombauhütte of St. Peter and the Congregation for Indulgences and the Holy Relics . On March 15, 1773, he became Archbishop of Ferrara after the archbishop's chair had been vacant for five years. He devoted little attention to diocesan pastoral activity and was a participant in the conclave 1774–1775 , from which - with Giraud's support - Giovanni Angelo Braschi as Pope Pius VI. emerged. He resigned the office of Archbishop of Ferrara on February 14, 1777. From April 2, 1781 to February 25, 1782 he was chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals .

He was buried in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella . In his will he ordered 3,000 masses to be held for his soul's salvation.

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SURNAME Giraud, Bernardino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1782
Place of death Rome