Giacomo Luigi Brignole

Giacomo Luigi Cardinal Brignole

Giacomo Luigi Brignole (born May 8, 1797 in Genoa , † June 23, 1853 in Rome ) was Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Giacomo Luigi Brignole studied in Genoa and Rome and was then ordained a priest . He later became Apostolic Protonotary and Vicar of the Lateran Basilica .

Pope Pius VIII appointed him Nuncio in Tuscany and titular Archbishop of Nazianzus in March 1830 . The Pope also appointed Brignole to the Papal Assistant to the Throne . The episcopal ordination donated him on 28 March the same year Cardinal Giacomo Filippo Fransoni . Co-consecrators were Lorenzo Girolamo Mattei and Antonio Louis Piatti . Pope Gregory XVI appointed him on February 22, 1833 general treasurer of the Apostolic Chamber.

In the consistory of January 20, 1834, Gregory XVI took him. as cardinal priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina to the College of Cardinals . In 1838 Cardinal Brignole was assigned the titular church of Santa Cecilia . In December 1840, Gregory XVI appointed him. as President of the Subsidies Commission .

After the death of Gregory XVI. Brignole took part in the conclave of 1846 . The new Pope Pius IX. accepted him in June 1847 in the class of cardinal bishops and assigned him to the diocese of Sabina . In 1849 he became prefect of the Index Congregation . In 1851 Pius IX appointed him. as treasurer of the Holy College of Cardinals . Cardinal Brignole held this office for a year and died in June 1853. He was buried in his former titular church, Santa Cecilia.

Web links

• Brignole, Giacomo Luigi. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 28, 2014.
• Entry on Giacomo Luigi Brignole on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Luigi Lambruschini	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina 1847-1853	Gabriele Ferretti