Giovanni Battista Spinola (cardinal, 1681)

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Giovanni Battista Spinola (born July 6, 1681 in Genoa , † August 20, 1752 in Albano Laziale ) was an Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Previously he was governor of Rome from 1728 to 1733 .

Life

Spinola, the eldest of seven children of a patrician family, studied at the University of La Sapienza in Rome and obtained a doctorate in civil, ecclesiastical and criminal law. In 1707 he received the title of His Holiness's Secret Chamberlain . In October 1712 he became governor of Benevento and gained the favor of the local archbishop Cardinal Orsini, who later became Pope Benedict XIII. has been. Spinola returned to Rome in 1717 and became auditor of the Camerlengo Annibale Albani before he became governor of Rimini in 1719 and deputy legate in Ravenna in 1722 .

Pope Benedict XIII ordained him on February 15, 1728 as a priest and on May 30 of the same year appointed him governor of Rome and vice-camerlengo of the Church. His successor Clemens XII. took him in the consistory of 28 September 1733 Cardinal Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio into the College of Cardinals on. In December of the same year the Pope made Cardinal Spinola his legate in Bologna , which he remained until 1740. In the same year he took part in the conclave that elected Benedict XIV as Pope. This raised him to the class of cardinal priests and assigned him to the titular church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on September 23, 1743 . Cardinal Spinola was treasurer of the Holy College of Cardinals from 1746 to 1747.

On November 15, 1751, he opted into the class of Cardinal Bishops and became Cardinal Bishop of Albano . The episcopal ordination received his Pope Benedict XIV. On April 9, 1752 in person. Cardinal Spinola died that same year and was buried in Rome without a major commemorative mass.

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SURNAME Spinola, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1752
Place of death Albano Laziale