Giacomo Corradi

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Giacomo Corradi

Giacomo Corradi (born May 2, 1602 in Ferrara , † January 17, 1666 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal and Roman Catholic bishop .

Life

He was born in Ferrara in 1602 and later attended the city's university, where he received his doctorate in utroque iure . He later became a professor at the same university and also acted as a lawyer. Pope Urban VIII personally called him to Rome as an auditor at the Court of Saint Rota . There he was ordained a priest and began an ecclesiastical career that made him cardinal on February 19, 1652. On March 12 of the same year he received the titular church of Santa Maria in Traspontina .

Appointed Bishop of Jesi on April 21, 1653 , he was consecrated on May 1 of the same year in the Quirinal Palace in Rome by Cardinal Fabio Chigi , Bishop of Imola , assisted by Annibale Bentivoglio , Titular Archbishop of Thebes , and Giovanni Battista Scanaroli , Titular Bishop of Sidon . He took part in the conclave of 1655 , which Alexander VII elected Pope. On April 10, 1655 he received the office of the Apostolic Datarie and left his bishopric on April 24, 1656. From January 15, 1663 to January 14, 1664 he was chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals .

Giacomo Corradi died on January 17, 1666 at 6 a.m. in the Villa Mattei near the Basilica Santa Maria in Domnica in Rome and was buried in his titular church.

literature

  • Gaetano Moroni: Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da San Pietro sino ai nostri giorni . Tip. Emiliana, Venice 1879.

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personal data
SURNAME Corradi, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian bishop and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1666
Place of death Rome