Giovanni Battista Castrucci

Giovanni Battista Castrucci (also Giovan Battista Castrucci ; * 1541 in Lucca , † August 18, 1595 in Bagni di Pisa ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Giovan Battista Castrucci , as he was also called, came from a family of the patriciate of Lucca and was the son of Vincenzo Castrucci and his wife Angela Gigli. He obtained the degree of Doctor iuris utriusque at the University of Padua in 1565 . He then became a Senator from Lucca. Pope Pius V gave him the prefecture of Jesi . After he tonsured the cleric had received, Giovanni Battista Castrucci moved to Rome, where he at the court of Cardinal Felice Peretti Montalto, later Pope Sixtus V found recording. During his pontificate Castrucci was Apostolic Datar and Pontifical House Prelate .

On October 21, 1585 Giovanni Battista Castrucci was elected Archbishop of Chieti . He received his episcopal ordination on November 3 of the same year in the Sistine Chapel by Cardinal Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni ; Co- consecrators were Gasparo Cenci , Bishop of Melfi , and Filippo Sega , Bishop of Piacenza . As a bishop, however, he stayed away from his diocese and had it run by vicars.

In the consistory of December 18, 1585 , Sixtus V created him cardinal priest. Giovanni Battista Castrucci received the cardinal's hat and the titular church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on January 15, 1586. In 1585 he was appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signature . Cardinal Castrucci participated in the first conclave of 1590 , which elected Urban VII Pope. After his pontificate, which lasted only twelve days, Cardinal Castrucci was a participant in the second conclave of 1590 , from which Gregory XIV emerged as Pope. Before March 20, 1591 he renounced the Archbishopric of Chieti in favor of his relative Orazio Saminiati . When he died in 1592, the Archdiocese of Chieti went to his cousin Matteo Saminiati . Giovanni Battista Castrucci was among the cardinals at the 1591 conclave , on which Innocent IX. was elected; he also took part in the conclave of 1592 , which made Clement VIII pope. On February 14, 1592 he opted for the titular church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo .

Giovanni Battista Castrucci died unexpectedly on August 18, 1595 due to an incorrectly performed surgical procedure. He was buried in the Franciscan Church of Lucca.

literature

• Anna Foa:  Castrucci, Giovan Battista. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 22:  Castelvetro – Cavallotti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.

Web links

• Castrucci, Giovanni Battista. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 24, 2018.
• Entry on Giovanni Battista Castrucci on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 24, 2018.

predecessor	Office	successor
Cesare Busdrago	Archbishop of Chieti 1585–1591	Orazio Saminiati