Bonifacio Ferrero

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Bonifacio Ferrero (also Bonifazio Ferrero ; * 1476 in Biella , † January 2, 1543 in Rome ) was an Italian bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

Bonifacio was the fifth of thirteen children of Sebastiano Ferrero and his wife Tomena Avogadro. His older brother Gianstefano was elevated to cardinal as early as 1500. Other cardinals from the same family were Filiberto Ferrero , Pier Francesco Ferrero , Guido Luca Ferrero and Antonio Ferrero .

His spiritual career began at a very young age and was promoted by the prominent position his father enjoyed at the courts of Savoy and France. On June 6, 1490 he became a canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of Vercelli . He was also from November 14, 1494 to 1508 and then again from 1536 to 1537 Commendatarabbot of San Stefano in Ivrea . On November 3, 1495 he was appointed provost of the Church of Sant'Eusebio in Vercelli .

Episcopal offices

At the urging of the court of Savoy , Pope Alexander VI confessed to him . on July 28, 1497 cum gratia expectativa the right to apply for the bishopric of Ivrea . In 1499 Bonifacio Ferrero was transferred to the diocese of Ivrea, but only as administrator , since he had not yet reached the canonical age for a bishop.

He was ordained bishop in 1505 by his brother, Cardinal Gianstefano Ferrero, who was then Bishop of Vercelli. On November 5, 1509, Bonifacio Ferrero renounced the bishopric in Ivrea in favor of his brother Gianstefano and was transferred to the bishopric of Vercelli on the same day. He also renounced this diocese in favor of another brother, Agostino Ferrero, on September 17, 1511, and went back to the episcopal see of Ivrea. Again, on May 17, 1518, he renounced this bishopric in favor of his nephew Filiberto Ferrero. Bonifacio Ferrero participated in the Fifth Lateran Council from 1513 to 1517 .

Cardinal dignity

Pope Leo X accepted him in the consistory of July 1, 1517 as a cardinal priest in the college of cardinals . Bonifacio Ferrero received the cardinal's hat and Santi Nereo ed Achilleo as the titular church on July 6 of the same year. He was a participant in the 1523 conclave , which Clement VII elected as Pope. On December 12, 1533 he opted for the cardinals class of cardinal bishops and the suburbicarian bishopric of Albano . On September 5, 1534 he moved to the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina . He took part in the conclave of 1534 , from which Paul III. emerged as Pope. This appointed him legate in Vicenza . Bonifacio Ferrero opted for the Cardinal Diocese of Sabina on February 26, 1535 . After the death of his brother Agostino, he was administrator of the Vercelli diocese from September 1 to December 20, 1536, when he renounced this mt in favor of his nephew Pietro Ferrero. On November 28, 1537 he became Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina and Cardinal Subdean , in 1540 he is a legate in Bologna.

Bonifacio Ferrero died around midnight on January 2, 1543 and was first buried in the Roman church of Santissima Trinità a Monte Pincio . Later his body was transferred to Biella and buried in the local church of San Sebastiano in the grave of his ancestors.

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predecessor Office successor
Giovanni Domenico De Cupis Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
1537–1543 		Antonio Sanseverino
Giovanni Domenico De Cupis Cardinal Bishop of Sabina
1535–1537 		Lorenzo Campeggi
Andrea della Valle Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina
1534–1535 		Lorenzo Campeggi
Andrea della Valle Cardinal Bishop of Albano
1533–1534 		Lorenzo Campeggi
Giovanni Stefano Ferrero Bishop of Ivrea
1511–1518
(2nd term) 		Filiberto Ferrero
Giovanni Stefano Ferrero Bishop of Vercelli
1509–1511 		Agustino Ferrero
Nicolò Garigliati Bishop of Ivrea
1497–1509 		Giovanni Stefano Ferrero
personal data
SURNAME Ferrero, Bonifacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferrero, Bonifazio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH 1476
PLACE OF BIRTH Biella
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1543
Place of death Rome