Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero

Cardinal Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero (1743)

Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero OSJH (born March 27, 1681 in Madrid , † June 22, 1760 in Rome ) was a Spanish clergyman and cardinal of the Roman Church .

biography

Origin and early years

Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, named after some sources Joaquín Fernández Portocarrero , Joaquín Portocarrero or Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero Mendoza , was the fourth of seven children of Luis Antonio Tomás Fernández de Portocarrero y Moscoso, 5th Count of Palma del Río , and the María Leonor de Moscoso from the house of the Counts of Altamira. His siblings were: Pedro, an Augustinian monk ; Antonia de las Reyes, a nun; María Ignacia de Monferrate, also a nun; José Antonio, a priest ; Gaspar and Agustín. He was a great-nephew of Cardinal Luis Manuel Fernández Portocarrero . His inherited title was that of Marquis of Almenara, which he passed on to his brother when he entered the clergy in 1728.

Life as a nobleman

The young Grande was initially responsible Hofpage at the service of King Charles II. Of Spain. When the king died in 1700, Portocarrero was a supporter of Archduke Charles III in the War of the Spanish Succession . of Austria and served under this as commander of a tercio of infantry , cavalry general and as a councilor of state. After the peace agreement between Archduke Charles and Philip V of Spain, the Austrian was known as Charles VI. Roman-German Emperor .

Fernández de Portocarrero became military commander in Sardinia . In 1716 he joined the Sovereign Knights and Hospitallers Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta . In the latter he later became Commander , Bailli, Grand Bailli and Admiral of the Galleys . He was the order's ambassador to Emperor Charles VI, who appointed him Viceroy of Sicily (1722–1728). From August 1st to December 9th, 1728 he was viceroy of Naples.

Church career

On January 5, 1730, Fernández de Portocarrero entered the clergy and received the minor orders . On January 10, 1730 he was ordained a subdeacon , on January 15 of the same year he received the deacon and on January 17, 1730 the priestly ordination .

He was appointed the ( titular ) Latin Patriarch of Antioch on May 25, 1735. He received his episcopal ordination on Whit Monday , May 30, 1735 Cardinal Juan Álvaro Cienfuegos Villazón SJ , Archbishop of Monreale ; Co- consecrators were Tommaso Cervini , Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem , and Mihály Frigyes von Althan , Archbishop of Bari . Cardinal Albani appointed him vicar at the Vatican Basilica in June 1735 . In July 1742 he became chargé d'affaires of the Order of Malta at the Holy See .

In the consistory of September 9, 1743 was Joaquín Fernández Portocarrero of Pope Benedict XIV. To Cardinal priests created, the titular church of Santi Quattro was transferred to him on 23 September 1743. He moved to the titular church of Santa Cecilia on April 10, 1747 . From December 1748 he was Plenipotentiary Minister of the King of Spain at the Holy See.

In 1748 he inherited the title of Count of Palma del Río after all of his brothers died without male descendants. From January 19, 1750 to February 1, 1751 he was Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals . He moved to the titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on April 9, 1751 , but kept the title of Santa Cecilia in commendam . On September 20, 1756 he was appointed bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Sabina and elevated to cardinal bishop . He took part in the conclave in 1758 , from which Clemens XIII. emerged as Pope.

After his death on June 22nd, 1760 the body was laid out with great solemnity in his parish church of San Andrea delle Fratte in Rome, where the funeral ceremony also took place. Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero found his final resting place in the church of San Basilio Magno al Monte Aventino , the priory church of the Order of Malta in Rome.

Act

Fernández de Portocarrero was a lover of books and encouraged writers, scientists and artists. A book donation of 5,570 volumes to the Order of Malta made him one of the co-founders of the Library of Malta, which is now the National Library of Malta .

In 1763, on the basis of a decree of the order, a marble monument was erected over the grave in his memory, showing his portrait as a mosaic .

Web links

• Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 14, 2016.
• Entry on Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero Mendoza on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 14, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Silvio Valenti Gonzaga	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina 1756–1760	Giovanni Francesco Albani
Filippo Anastasi	Latin Patriarch of Antioch 1735–1743	Francesco Maria Pallavicini