Filippo Maria Pirelli

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Filippo Maria Pirelli (born April 29, 1708 in Ariano Irpino , † January 10, 1771 in Rome ) was a curia cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Pirelli, who came from a Neapolitan patrician family, grew up in Ariano Irpino and Naples . He studied civil and canon law and was to succeed his deceased uncle as cathedral capitular in his hometown in 1733, but Bishop Filippo Tipaldi decided against him. So he first returned to Naples before Pope Clement XII. appointed his private chamberlain.

Pope Benedict XIV awarded Pirelli the title of papal house prelate in 1741. In addition, he entrusted him with several legal activities at the Curia , including that of a civil auditor of the Apostolic Chamber in 1749. In December 1753, Pirelli became auditor of the Apostolic Signature . Benedict's successor Clemens XIII. Appointed him in 1762 to lieutenant of the Apostolic Chamber and in the following year to secretary of the Consistorial Congregation , an office which was reserved exclusively for bishops. Therefore, Pirelli was ordained a priest on November 4, 1764, and on February 10, 1765 he was ordained titular Archbishop of Damascus by Pope Clement XIII. personally.

In the consistory of September 26, 1766 Clemens XIII took him. as cardinal priest of San Crisogono in the college of cardinals and made him a member of several cardinal congregations. Cardinal Pirelli took part in the conclave of 1769 , which was strongly dominated by the Jesuit question, and wrote a diary of the events. He advocated measures to curb anti-church currents and was disappointed with the election of Clement XIV , whom he saw as an ally of those states that wanted to ban the Jesuit order.

After his health deteriorated at the end of 1770 and he suffered from a severe fever, he died in January of the following year. Cardinal Pirelli was buried in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella .

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