Filippo Acciaiuoli

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Filippo Acciaiuoli (also Filippo Acciaioli or Filippo Acciajuoli ; born March 12, 1700 in Rome , † July 24, 1766 in Ancona ) was an Italian clergyman, papal diplomat, bishop of Ancona and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

The Acciaioli family, also spelled Acciaiuoli or Acciajuoli, came from Florence. Filippo Acciaiuoli was the third of six children of Ottaviano Acciaoili, Marchese of Novi, and his wife Mariana Torriglioni from Ancona. He was a nephew of Cardinal Niccolò Acciaiuoli , a former Cardinal from the same family was Angelo Acciaioli . When he was baptized in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Via Lata , his godfather was Archbishop Michelangelo Conti, who later became Pope Innocent XIII. He received his first education at home in Florence, then he attended the Collegio Romano of the Jesuits and later studied at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, where he received his doctorate iuris utriusque on August 13, 1722 .

On January 30, 1723 he entered the service of the Curia as Apostolic Protonotary and on February 11 of the same year he became a trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature . From 1724 to 1728 he was vice- legate in Romagna , after which he was governor of Città di Castello until June 1729 . From 1730 to 1739 he was relator of the Congregation for the Sacra Consulta , in March 1737 he became President of the Apostolic Chamber and also relator of the Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity . After another curial offices he received on 24 November 1743 consecration of the sub-deacon and on December 8 of that year, the ordination .

On December 2, 1743 Filippo Acciaiuoli was appointed titular archbishop of Petra in Palestine . He received his episcopal ordination on December 21 of the same year in the Quirinal Palace, Pope Benedict XIV personally, co- consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia Gioacchino Saporiti and Michele Maria Vincentini . On December 22, 1743 he was appointed papal assistant to the throne . From January 22, 1744 to April 21, 1754 he was nuncio in Switzerland, after which he worked from January 28, 1754 to October 22, 1760 as nuncio in Portugal. In Lisbon he witnessed the severe earthquake on November 1, 1755 , which destroyed almost the entire city. In the ensuing dispute about the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal, the nuncio initially took a cautious and moderate position, but after Pope Clement XIII in July 1758 . Having followed Benedict XIV, he took an increasingly clear position in favor of the Society of Jesus.

Clement XIII. elevated him to cardinal in the consistory of September 24, 1759 and sent him the red biretta with an apostolic brief of October 2, 1759 . The Portuguese Prime Minister Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello had him deported by military force on June 15, 1760 after an attack on King José I that was wrongly attributed to the Jesuits. Filippo Acciaiuoli reached Rome in late 1760 and received the cardinal's hat on March 13, 1761. On April 6 of the same year he was awarded the title church of Santa Maria degli Angeli as a cardinal priest . He was a member of the Congregation for the Consulta , the Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity, the Consistorial Congregation and the Congregation for the Water Supply. On January 24, 1763 he was appointed Bishop of Ancona with the personal title of Archbishop .

Filippo Acciaiuoli died on July 24, 1766 in Ancona and was buried in the local Cathedral of San Ciriaco .

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predecessor Office successor
Nicola Mancinforte Bishop of Ancona
1763–1766 		Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini
personal data
SURNAME Acciaiuoli, Filippo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acciaioli, Filippo; Acciajuoli, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, papal diplomat, Bishop of Ancona and cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1766
Place of death Ancona