Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana

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Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana

Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana (born June 19, 1724 in Turin , † December 7, 1802 in Vercelli ) was an Italian clergyman, Bishop of Vercelli and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

He came from a Piedmontese noble family and was the only child of Conte Carlo Baldassare Filippa della Martiniana and his second wife Bona Teresa Grimaldi. Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana studied at the University of Turin , where he obtained the academic degree of Dr. theol . He was ordained a priest on March 1, 1749 and then worked as a spiritual director at the University of Turin and as a hospital chaplain.

King Carlo Emanuele III. of Sardinia-Piedmont appointed him bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne on May 25, 1757 . He was ordained episcopate on August 7th of the same year in the Cathedral of Turin by Cardinal Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze .

In the consistory of June 1, 1778 Pope Pius VI. him cardinal. On April 21, 1779 he was by King Viktor Amadeus III. nominated by Sardinia as Bishop of Vercelli and transferred to the Episcopal See of Vercelli on July 12 of the same year. When Pope Pius VI. In 1799, on the way to French exile, in Crescentino near Vercelli in the house of the Oratorians, Filippa della Martiniana was the last cardinal the Pope saw until his death.

Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana was a participant in the conclave 1799-1800 , which Pius VII elected Pope. From this he received on March 28, 1800 the cardinal's hat and on April 2 of the same year San Callisto as titular church . He was a member of the Congregation for the ecclesiastical immunity , the Congregation of Rites and the Congregation for indulgences and the holy relics . A meeting between him and Napoléon Bonaparte in 1800 marked the beginning of a turnaround in French church policy, which culminated in the Concordat of 1801 .

He was buried in the Cathedral of Sant'Eusebio in Vercelli.

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predecessor Office successor
Vittorio Maria Baldassare Gaetano Costa d'Arignano Bishop of Vercelli
1779–1802 		Johannes Baptista Conoveri
Ignace-Dominique Grisella de Rosignan Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
1756–1778 		Charles-Joseph Compans de Brichanteau
personal data
SURNAME Filippa della Martiniana, Carlo Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, Bishop of Vercelli and Cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1802
Place of death Vercelli