Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj

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Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj

Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj (born November 11, 1751 in Genoa , † February 8, 1816 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj, full name: Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj Landi , came from the Genoese aristocratic Doria family , which had also inherited the Pamphilj family , from which Pope Innocent X came. He was the brother of Cardinal Antonio Doria Pamphilj and the uncle of Cardinal Giorgio Doria Pamphilj Landi . He was the son of Giovanni Andrea IV Doria-Pamphilj and Eleonora Carafa della Stadera.

Until the family moved to Rome in 1761, he was taught in his home villa in Genoa. In Rome he began to study at the Jesuit college in Rome together with his brother Antonio . He graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome with a doctorate in law in 1771 . The ordination of diocesan priests from Genoa was donated to him on July 18, the 1,773th Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj was appointed titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria on February 27, 1773, even before his ordination . He received the episcopal ordination on August 22, 1773 by Buenaventura Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda , co- consecrators were Manuel Ferrer y Figueredo , titular archbishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne , and Joaquín de Eleta , OFM , titular archbishop of Thebae .

From 1772 to 1773 he worked as an envoy to the Spanish royal court. On September 6, 1773 he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio in France and received on February 14, 1785 the elevation to Cardinal Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli . On the same day, his brother Antonio Doria Pamphilj was made cardinal. As apostolic nuncio , he carried out a number of diplomatic missions and was Pope Pius VI. in exile in Valence until his death in 1799. Since March 1797 he was Cardinal Secretary of State . In 1799 and 1800 he took part in the conclave for the election of Pope Pius VII and consecrated twenty-nine bishops during his tenure .

In 1799 he was deported to Genoa by the French. In the following period, after returning to Rome, he became cardinal priest of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in 1802, cardinal bishop of Frascati in 1803 and from 1814 he was cardinal bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina . Napoleon had him appointed envoy to negotiate the Fontainebleau Concordat in 1813. His final resting place was the titular church of Santa Cecilia.

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predecessor Office successor
Luigi Valenti Gonzaga Subdean of the College of Cardinals
1814–1816
Giulio Maria della Somaglia
Alessandro Mattei Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
1814–1816
Antonio Dugnani
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Stuart Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
1803–1814
Giulio Maria della Somaglia