Ignazio Michele Crivelli
Ignazio Michele Crivelli , also Cribelli (born September 30, 1698 in Cremona , † February 29, 1768 in Milan ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .
Life
Crivelli's family, a line of the Counts of Ossolaro, originally came from Ticino . Ignazio Michele was one of three children of Count Giuseppe Angelo Crivelli and his wife Francesca Maria Ferrari. His nephew Carlo Crivelli also became a cardinal in 1801; other members of the same family were Cardinal Uberto Crivelli (around 1120-1187), who as Urban III. Pope was, as well as Cardinal Alessandro Crivelli (1514–1574).
Ignazio Michele Crivelli began his studies at the Roman Seminary and continued in 1721 at the Pontifical Academy of the Ecclesiastical Nobility in Rome . He then attended the University of La Sapienza and graduated on April 5, 1726 with the degree of Doctor iuris utriusque . On July 7th, 1726 he was appointed Apostolic Protonotar de numero participantium and began his service as a trainee lawyer at the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature on December 19, 1726 . From 1728 to 1730 Ignazio Michele Crivelli was vice- legate in Ferrara , where he performed the duties of Cardinal Tommaso Ruffo , who was ill with malaria . In 1730 he returned to Rome and became a relator of the Sacra Consulta , a position he held until 1739. On August 7, 1739 received the minor orders , was on 9 August of the same year for sub-deacon and on August 16 for ordained deacon and received on 30 August 1739 ordination . Already on September 30, 1739 Pope Clement XII appointed him titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia . He received his episcopal ordination on October 4, 1739 in the Roman church of San Carlo al Corso, Cardinal Giovanni Antonio Guadagni OCD ; Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini and Ferdinando Maria de Rossi . On October 1 of the same year, Ignazio Michele Crivelli was appointed papal assistant to the throne . From October 5, 1739 he worked as a nuncio in Cologne . From March 26, 1744 he was nuncio in Flanders and at the same time superior of the mission in Holland; from December 17, 1753 he finally worked as papal envoy at the imperial court in Vienna .
Pope Clement XIII. created him in the consistory of September 24, 1759 as cardinal priest . His nephew Carlo Crivelli brought him the red biretta with an Apostolic Breve dated September 28, 1759 to Vienna. Ignazio Michele Crivelli received the cardinal's hat on August 13, 1761 in Rome, the Pope awarded him the titular church of San Bernardo alle Terme on August 17 of the same year and called him a. a. to the Congregation Propaganda Fide and the Congregation for Ecclesiastical Immunity . From August 17, 1761 to December 1, 1766 he was legate in Romagna .
Ignazio Michele Crivelli died on the evening of February 29, 1768 in the house of his brother, Count Stefano Gaetano Crivelli, in Milan and was buried in a family grave in the local parish church of Santa Maria della Porta .
literature
- Marta Pieroni Francini: Crivelli, Ignazio Michele. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 31: Cristaldi – Dalla Nave. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1985.
Web links
- Crivelli, Ignazio Michele. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed January 22, 2017.
- Entry on Ignazio Michele Crivelli on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on January 22, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crivelli, Ignazio Michele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cribelli, Ignazio Michele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cardinal of the Roman Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cremona |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1768 |
| Place of death | Milan |