Francesco Tiberi

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Francesco Tiberi (born January 4, 1773 in Contigliano , † October 28, 1839 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

He came from a patrician family of the Sabina and the Republic of San Marino and was the second child of Antonio Tiberi and his wife Teresa Orsini . Francesco Tiberi attended the Collegio Nazareno of the Piarists from 1741 and studied at the Archigymnasium La Sapienza from 1790 to 1791 . After a few years of practical legal work with the lawyers Bernardino Ridolfi and Nicola Riganti, he received his doctorate iuris utriusque on March 17, 1795 and received the tonsure on the same day , whereby he was admitted to the clergy .

Church career

On May 21, 1795, Francesco Tiberi entered the service of the Curia as a trainee lawyer at the Courts of Justice of the Apostolic Signature. From July 11 of the same year he was consultor of the Congregation for Indulgences and from November 30, 1800 relator of the Congregation for the Administration of Goods. At the apostolic signature he was from March 28, 1801 coadjutor of the judge Paolo Emilio Petrucci, he was also canon of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore . On November 2, 1806 he was ordained a subdeacon .

During the French occupation of Rome, Francesco Tiberi was first deported to Piacenza and then to Bastia in Corsica in 1812 because he had refused to swear allegiance to the French . In 1814 he returned to Rome and resumed his work in the Apostolic Signature. Before August 6, 1814, he was appointed Apostolic Protonotar non participante . In July 1815 he found himself as an Apostolic Delegate in the provinces of Macerata and Camerino . From March 9, 1816 he was auditor of the Roman Rota and consultor of the Congregation for Rites . He became regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary on June 10, 1823 . On December 9 of that year he was appointed to the Commission, which proprio with the implementation of the Motu were commissioned on 6 July 1816 in this capacity he was involved in the drafting of a new Napoleonic Code for the Papal States , which on the 5th October 1824 was promulgated .

On October 2, 1826, Francesco Tiberi was appointed titular archbishop of Athenae and was ordained priest in December of the same year . He was ordained bishop on December 27, 1826 in the Roman church of Santi Domenico e Sisto by Cardinal Francesco Saverio Castiglioni ; Co- consecrators were Pietro Caprano , Secretary of the Propaganda Fide Congregation , and Archbishop of Curia Giovanni Giacomo Sinibaldi .

Francesco Tiberi became papal assistant to the throne on January 9, 1827 , on the same day he was appointed nuncio to Spain .

Cardinal office, last years and death

Pope Gregory XVI elevated him to cardinal in the consistory of September 30, 1831 in pectore , this was published on July 2, 1832. Francesco Tiberi received the cardinal's hat on June 26, 1834. He was appointed cardinal priest on August 1, 1834 with Santo Stefano al Monte Celio as the titular church . On July 2, 1832, he became Bishop of Jesi with the personal title of Archbishop . He resigned the leadership of this diocese on May 18, 1836. He became Prefect of the Apostolic Signature on February 22, 1837 .

Francesco Tiberi died in Rome and was buried in his titular church, Santo Stefano al Monte Celio .

literature

  • Philippe Bountry: Le sacré collège des cardinaux . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 735–737 (French, online edition [accessed March 7, 2020]).
  • David Armando:  Tiberi, Francesco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 95:  Taranto – Togni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2019.

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