Lorenzo Caleppi

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Lorenzo Caleppi (born April 29, 1741 in Cervia , † January 10, 1817 in Rio de Janeiro ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Born as the son of Count Nicola Caleppi and his wife Luciana Salducci, Lorenzo Caleppi belonged to a patrician family in Cervia. His first training took place at the Jesuit college in Ravenna. On January 3, 1767 he received his doctorate from the University of Cesena to the Doctor iuris utriusque . From 1766 to 1767 he was Episcopal Vicar and General Commissioner for the part of the Archdiocese of Ravenna belonging to Ferrara . Then he went to Rome, where he enjoyed the protection of Giuseppe Garampi . Through him Caleppi was ordained a priest on May 1, 1772 .

Lorenzo Caleppi entered the service of the Curia in 1772 as Uditore (auditor) under Giuseppe Garampi at the Nunciature in Poland, which he remained until 1775. From 1776 to 1780 he was Uditore at the Nunciature in Vienna, where in 1780 he gave the funeral address to Queen Maria Theresia stopped. In 1782 he found himself charged with the Holy See in Vienna, while Giuseppe Garampi was Pope Pius VI. accompanied on the return journey from Vienna to Rome. When Giuseppe Garampi was elevated to cardinal in 1785, Lorenzo Caleppi, as papal delegate, brought him the red biretta . Back in Rome, Caleppi was Prior of the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria in Via Lata and took on various diplomatic missions, especially 1786–1788 in Naples. In the autumn of 1792 Pius VI transferred. he managed an aid organization for French priests who had fled to Rome before the revolution .

Lorenzo Caleppi became papal house prelate on February 21, 1794 and trainee lawyer on May 13 of the same year. Pius VI appointed him secretary of the Special Congregation for the Affairs of Poland in 1795. In May 1796 he was sent by the Pope on a diplomatic mission to Florence to negotiate there with the Directory ; he was also an authorized representative at the side of Cardinal Alessandro Mattei when he negotiated the Treaty of Tolentino . In May 1797 he found himself a cleric in the Apostolic Chamber . During the time of the Repubblica Romana , Lorenzo Caleppi fled first to Naples, then to Sicily, from where he traveled to Venice for the conclave in 1799/1800 . The newly elected Pope Pius VII assigned him on July 9, 1800 to the special congregation for the return of ecclesiastical goods expropriated during the French occupation ( Italian congregazione deputata per gli acquisti fatti nel tempo della rivoluzione ). On February 4, 1801, Lorenzo Caleppi was one of the co-founders of the Academy for the Catholic Religion .

Pope Pius VII appointed Lorenzo Caleppi on February 23, 1801 titular Archbishop of Nisibis . He received his episcopal ordination on November 15, 1801 in the Cathedral of Frascati by the Cardinal Bishop of Frascati , Henry Benedict Stuart ; Co-consecrators were Bishop Angelo Cesarini and Bonaventura Gazzola OFM Ref , Bishop of Cervia . On November 19 of the same year he was appointed papal assistant to the throne and on December 23, 1801, nuncio in Portugal . Lorenzo Caleppi left Rome with Vincenzo Macchi as Uditore on April 26th of the following year, they reached Lisbon on May 22nd, where Caleppi presented his accreditation on June 27th, 1802 .

When the French army conquered the Iberian Peninsula in 1808, Lorenzo Caleppi left with King João VI. , the royal family and the court on April 19, 1808 Portugal and sailed for Brazil, where they reached Rio de Janeiro on September 8 of the same year. His colleague Vincenzo Macchi stayed behind as chargé d'affaires in Lisbon.

He was the first cardinal of the Roman Church to die on American soil. He was buried in the Franciscan Church of San António in Rio de Janiero.

Publications

  • Per le solenne esequie di Maria Teresa d'Habsburg, imperatrice e regina apostolica, celebrate in Vienna dalla nazione italiana il XIX gennaio MDCCLXXXI. Orazione. Vienna 1781.

literature

  • Lajos Pàsztor:  CALEPPI, Lorenzo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16:  Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.
  • Philippe Bountry: Le sacré collège des cardinaux . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 125–131 (French, online edition [accessed June 16, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Caleppi, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Cervia
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1817
Place of death Rio de Janeiro