List of the cardinal creations of Pius VI.

Pius VI

In the course of his pontificate (1775–1799) Pope Pius VI. 76 cardinals in 23 consistories.

April 24, 1775

• Leonardo Antonelli
• Bernardino de Vecchi

May 29, 1775

• in pectore Giovanni Carlo Bandi

July 17, 1775

• in pectore Francesco Maria Banditi Theat.
• in pectore Ignazio Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi

November 11, 1775

• Cardinal published in pectore : Giovanni Carlo Bandi

November 13, 1775

• Juan Tomás de Boxadors y Sureda de San Martín OP
• Cardinal published in pectore : Francesco Maria Banditi Theat.
• Cardinal published in pectore : Ignazio Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi

April 15, 1776

• in pectore Luigi Valenti Gonzaga
• in pectore Giovanni Archinto

May 20, 1776

• Guido Calcagnini
• Angelo Maria Durini
• Cardinal published in pectore : Luigi Valenti Gonzaga
• Cardinal published in pectore : Giovanni Archinto

June 23, 1777

• Bernardino Honorati
• Marcantonio Marcolini
• Guglielmo Pallotta
• Gregorio Antonio Maria Salviati
• Cardinal never published in pectore
• Cardinal never published in pectore

• in pectore Vincenzo Maria Altieri
• in pectore Andrea Gioannetti OSB Cam.
• in pectore Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil CRSP
• in pectore Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli

December 15, 1777

• Cardinal published in pectore : Andrea Gioannetti OSB Cam.
• Cardinal published in pectore : Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil CRSP

June 1, 1778

• Francisco Javier Delgado Venegas
• Dominique de La Rochefoucauld
• Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg
• József Batthyány
• Tommaso Maria Ghilini
• Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana
• Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné
• Fernando de Sousa e Silva
• Giovanni Cornaro
• Romoaldo Guidi

July 12, 1779

• Francis by Paula Herzan von Harras

• in pectore Alessandro Mattei

December 11, 1780

• Paolo Francesco Antamori
• Cardinal published in pectore : Vincenzo Maria Altieri
• Cardinal published in pectore : Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli

May 22, 1782

• Cardinal published in pectore : Alessandro Mattei

December 16, 1782

• Giuseppe Maria Capece Zurlo Theat.

• in pectore Raniero Finocchietti

September 20, 1784

• Giovanni Andrea Archetti

• Cardinal never published in pectore

February 14, 1785

• Giuseppe Garampi
• Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj
• Vincenzo Ranuzzi
• Nicola Colonna di Stigliano
• Barnaba Chiaramonti OSB (later Pope Pius VII)
• Muzio Gallo
• Giovanni De Gregorio
• Giovanni Maria Riminaldi
• Paolo Massei
• Francesco Carrara
• Fernando Spinelli
• Antonio Maria Doria Pamphilj
• Carlo Livizzani Forni

• in pectore Carlo Bellisomi

December 18, 1786

• Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti

January 29, 1787

• Filippo Carandini

December 17, 1787

• Cardinal published in pectore : Raniero Finocchietti

April 7, 1788

• José Francisco Miguel António de Mendoça Valdereis

December 15, 1788

• Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne

March 30, 1789

• Antonio de Sentmenat y Castellá
• Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butron
• Ignazio Busca
• Vittorio Maria Baldassare Gaetano Costa d'Arignano
• Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval
• Joseph Franz Anton von Auersperg
• Stefano Borgia
• Tommaso Antici
• Filippo Campanelli

August 3, 1789

• Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli

September 26, 1791

• in pectore Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo

June 18, 1792

• Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli

February 21, 1794

• Antonio Dugnani
• Ippolito Antonio Vincenti Mareri
• Jean-Siffrein Maury
• Giovanni Battista Bussi de Pretis
• Francesco Maria Pignatelli
• Aurelio Roverella
• Giovanni Rinuccini
• Filippo Lancellotti
• Cardinal published in pectore : Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo
• Cardinal published in pectore : Carlo Bellisomi

June 1, 1795

• Giulio Maria della Somaglia

Web links

• Consistories for the creation of Cardinals - Pius VI (1775-1799). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 29, 2016.