Giovanni Battista Bussi (cardinal, 1657)

Giovanni Battista Bussi (born April 2, 1657 in Viterbo , † December 23, 1726 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

He was the youngest of the seven children of Giovanni Battista Bussi and Eleonora Masciano. His great-uncle was Cardinal Filippo Filonardi (1582–1622), his nephew Pierfrancesco Bussi (1684–1765) also became a cardinal in 1759, as did his great-nephew Giovanni Battista Bussi in 1824. As a child he came to Rome. There he received his doctorate at the University of La Sapienza on May 7, 1696 as Doctor iuris utriusque . From Pope Innocent XII. he was entrusted with the pastoral care of the sick in the Città Leonina . From September 1698 to May 1705 he was Internuntius in Brussels. 1702 to 1703 he was sent to the Netherlands to restore religious peace. There he set the Vicar Apostolic Theodorus de Kock (1650-1720) due to a tendency to Jansenism attributed to that .

On June 25, 1706 he was appointed titular archbishop of Tarsus and on July 6 of the same year as nuncio in Cologne, which he remained until the end of 1712. He was ordained bishop on September 12, 1706 in Cologne by Cardinal Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz , Bishop of Győr ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Giulio Piazza (1663-1726) and Johann Werner von Veyder , administrator of Münster . With the personal title of Archbishop he became Bishop of Ancona on February 19, 1710 .

Pope Clement XI. elevated him to cardinal in pectore on May 18, 1712 , this was publicly announced in the consistory of September 26, 1712. He received the red hat and the title of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on January 30, 1713. Giovanni Battista Bussi took part in the conclave of 1721 , from which Innocent XIII. emerged as Pope, he was also a participant in the conclave of 1724 , in which Benedict XIII. was elected Pope.

He died on December 23, 1726 in Rome, where he was staying for a canonization , and was buried in his titular church, Santa Maria in Aracoeli .

literature

• Gaspare De Caro:  Bussi, Giovanni Battista. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 15:  Buffoli-Caccianemici. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1972.

Web links

• Bussi, Giovanni Battista. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 15, 2017.
• Entry on Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Bussi on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on July 15, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Marcello D'Aste	Bishop of Ancona 1710–1720	Prospero Lambertini