Cesare Monti

Cardinal Cesare Monti in a 17th century painting

Cesare Monti (born May 15, 1594 in Milan , † August 16, 1650 ibid) was an Italian cardinal who was Archbishop of Milan from 1632 .

Life

Family background

Cesare Monti was the younger of two sons of the Milanese patrician and senator Princivalle Monti and his second wife Anna Landriani. His older brother Marcantonio also became a senator in 1628.

Early life

Monti studied law at the University of Pavia until 1617 and lived at the Collegio Borromeo . Thanks to the good relations between his father and Cardinal Federico Borromeo , he was able to begin a career at the Curia as Apostolic Protonotary . Four years later he worked for the Holy Office and met Maffeo Barberini, who later became Pope Urban VIII . After his activity as nuncio in Spain in 1628, he received the lower and higher orders up to the priesthood in the following two years .

Bishop and Cardinal

Funeral procession for the Cardinal 1650, Milan Cathedral Square

In 1629 Monti became titular patriarch of Antioch , and was ordained bishop on January 28, 1630 by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphilj ; Co- consecrators were Cristóbal de Lobera y Torres , Bishop of Cordoba , and Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán , Patriarch of the West Indies . On November 19, 1629, Urban VIII created him cardinal in pectore .

Three years later, in December 1632, Monti became Archbishop of Milan and immediately got into a conflict over the administration of the archbishopric's assets, which was only resolved in 1634 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. On July 1, 1634, Monti received the cardinal's hat and on August 6, 1634 he was appointed cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria in Traspontina .

Political problems surrounding the Franco-Spanish War made difficult for the Archbishop of Milan. He finally handed over the rules of relations between Lombard Catholics and Protestants to the Swiss cantons. Cesare Monti was one of the participants in the conclave of 1644 , from which Giovanni Battista Pamphilj when Pope Innocent X emerged.

Cesare Monti died on August 16, 1650. His grave is in the Milan Cathedral .

literature

• Massimo Carlo Giannini:  Monti, Cesare. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 76:  Montauti – Morlaiter. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.

Web links

Commons : Cesare Monti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Monti, Cesare. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed October 28, 2016.
• Entry on Cesare Monti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on October 28, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Federico Borromeo	Archbishop of Milan 1632–1650	Alfonso Litta
Giovanni Battista Pamphilj	Latin Patriarch of Antioch 1629–1633	Fabio della Leonessa