Andrea Gioannetti

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Andrea Cardinal Gioannetti

Andrea Cardinal Gioannetti OSBCam (actually Melchiorre Benedetto Lucidoro Gioannetti ) (born January 6, 1722 in Bologna ; † April 8, 1800 ibid) was Archbishop of Bologna .

Life

Gioannetti entered the Camaldolese monastery of Sant'Apollinare in Classe in Ravenna in 1739 . He studied theology there, became a teacher in the schools of the order and in June 1753 theological advisor to the Archbishop of Ravenna , Ferdinando Romoaldo Guiccioli . Andrea Gioannetti became abbot of his home monastery Classe in 1763 and abbot of the monastery of San Gregorio al Monte Celio in Rome in 1773 .

He became Titular Bishop of Hemeria and Apostolic Administrator of Bologna on January 20, 1776 . His episcopal ordination was made on February 4, 1776 in Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albano , co- consecrators were Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno-Talenti , Titular Archbishop of Myra , and Giovanni Tommaso Gallarati Ghislieri , Titular Bishop of Paros . On December 15, 1777 he was appointed Archbishop of Bologna. Pope Pius VI appointed him cardinal in pectore on June 23, 1777. This move was published on December 15, 1777, the day he was appointed Archbishop of Bologna.

Gioannetti took on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice at the conclave of 1799/1800 part, but was Pope Pius VII. Not allowed to vote because he died a few weeks earlier. After his death there was a vacancy of more than two years in the chair of the Archdiocese of Bologna, normal church conditions could only be reestablished after the fall of Napoleonic rule in 1814.

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Vincenzo Cardinal Malvezzi Bonfioli Archbishop of Bologna
1778–1800
Carlo Cardinal Oppizzoni