Innocenzo Del Bufalo de 'Cancellieri

Innocenzo Del Bufalo de 'Cancellieri (* 1565 or 1566 in Rome ; † March 27 or 29, 1610 there ; also Innocenzo del Bufalo-Cancellieri or Innocenzo del Bufalo ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

He came from a originally from Pistoia coming patrician family and was the second child of Tommaso del Bufalo and his wife Silvia de 'Rustici. From January 1582 he studied philosophy, theology and law at the Collegio Romano, where he obtained a doctorate in law after defending his dissertation theses before Cardinal Marcantonio Colonna . His fellow student was the later Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini . Under the pontificate of Sixtus V he became a trainee lawyer at the courts of justice of the Apostolic Signature , and in 1586 he met as Abbreviator in the Apostolic Chancellery . He became vicar of Cardinal Domenico Pinelli , the archpriest of Santa Maria Maggiore . On October 19, 1590 he became governor of Narni and on May 28, 1591 governor of Benevento. He was appointed canon of the Vatican Basilica on August 28, 1594. From 1595 to 1598 he was Inquisitor in Malta and from July 15, 1598 Vice-Governor of Fermo.

Episcopate

On May 14, 1601 Innocenzo Del Bufalo de 'Cancellieri was appointed Bishop of Camerino . He was ordained bishop on May 20 of the same year in the Vatican basilica by Cardinal Mariano Pierbenedetti ; Co- consecrators were Napoleon Comitoli , Bishop of Perugia , and Tommaso Vannini , Bishop of Avellino . He became the house prelate of His Holiness and worked from June 14, 1601 to September 26, 1604 as nuncio in France. He then returned to Rome for health reasons.

cardinal

Pope Clement VIII. Appointed him in the consistory of June 9th, 1604 to Cardinal priests and awarded him on 10 December of the same year the red hat and San Tommaso in Parione as a titular church . As cardinal, Innocenzo Del Bufalo de 'Cancellieri took part in the first conclave of 1605 , which Leo XI. elected to the Pope. He was also among the papal voters in the second conclave of the same year when Paul V was elected. On June 1, 1605, he opted for the titular church of San Marcello . From 1605 to 1606 he was prefect of the Sacra Consulta . He renounced the bishopric of Camerino before February 20, 1606. On November 19, 1607 he opted for the titular church of Santi Nereo e Achilleo .

Innocenzo Del Bufalo de 'Cancellieri died at the end of March 1610 in the Palazzo del Bufalo in Rome and was buried in the church of Santa Maria in Via .

literature

• Bernard Barbiche:  DEL BUFALO, Innocenzo. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 36:  DeFornari – Della Fonte. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1988.

Web links

• Del Bufalo-Cancellieri, Innocenzo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed January 11, 2020.
• Entry on Innocenzo Del Bufalo-Cancellieri on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on January 11, 2020.