Cesare Brancadoro

Cesare Cardinal Brancadoro (around 1805)

Cesare Brancadoro (born August 28, 1755 in Fermo , Papal States ; † September 12, 1837 ibid) was a papal diplomat and cardinal , later Archbishop of Fermo .

Life

Brancadoro studied civil and canon law in Fermo and was then ordained a priest . Pope Pius VI awarded him the title of papal secret chamberlain . Andrea Antonio Silverio Minucci , the Archbishop of Fermo, appointed him his librarian.

On October 20, 1789, he was appointed titular archbishop of Nisibis by the Pope . In the same year Brancadoro was also appointed papal assistant to the throne . The episcopal ordination donated to him on July 25, 1790 Archbishop Minucci. In 1792 Brancadoro became apostolic nuncio in the Austrian Netherlands . Five years later, in June 1797, he returned to Rome and became secretary of the De Propaganda Fide congregation .

Pope Pius VII appointed him Bishop of Orvieto in 1800 . On February 23, 1801 he accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Girolamo degli Schiavoni in the college of cardinals . On July 11, 1803, Cardinal Brancadoro became the new Archbishop of Fermo. In 1810, he refused to appear at the second wedding of Napoleon Bonaparte , as it contravened the ecclesiastical marriage laws. Therefore the emperor forbade him to wear his red official clothes ("black cardinal"). Brancadoro was deported to Reims in 1810, to Fontainebleau in 1813 and to Orange in early 1814. The cardinal was only released after the fall of Bonaparte. In 1820 he was assigned the titular church of Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio by Pius VII . He took part in the conclave of 1823 , in which Pope Leo XII. was chosen. He did not take part in the papal elections in 1829 and 1830/1831 . In 1832, Brancadoro became the longest serving cardinal priest cardinal protopriester. Blinded for a number of years, he died in 1837 at the age of 82 and was buried in Fermo Cathedral.

Cesare Brancadoro was the uncle of the cardinals Tommaso Bernetti and Antonio Matteucci .

literature

• Giuseppe Pignatelli:  BRANCADORO, Cesare. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 13:  Borremans – Brancazolo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1971.

Web links

• Brancadoro, Cesare. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 29, 2013.
• Entry for Cesare Brancadoro on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Andrea Antonio Silverio Minucci	Archbishop of Fermo 1803–1837	Gabriele Ferretti
Luigi Ruffo Scilla	Cardinal Protopriest 1832-1837	Joseph Fesch