Luigi Valenti Gonzaga

Cardinal Luigi Valenti Gonzaga

Luigi Valenti Gonzaga (born October 15, 1725 in Roveredo di Guà , † December 29, 1808 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

He was a nephew of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga . After Luigi Valenti Gonzaga was ordained a priest on June 29, 1764 , Pope Clement XIII appointed. him on July 9, 1765 titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia and also donated him the episcopal ordination on July 25, 1764 ; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini and Giovanni Carlo Boschi . Since July 27, 1764 nuncio in Switzerland , he became nuncio to Spain on September 2, 1773 . Pope Pius VI elevated him to cardinal on April 15, 1776 in pectore and published his name on May 20, 1776. Since May 30, 1778 cardinal priest of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura , he became cardinal priest of Ss on November 29, 1790 . Nereo ed Achilleo and finally, on June 1, 1795, Cardinal Bishop of Albano . Librarian of the Holy Church since January 12, 1803 , on August 3, 1807, he became Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina and Subdean of the College of Cardinals . He took part in the conclave from December 1799 to March 1800 , which Barnaba Chiaramonti elected Pope Pius VII .

Web links

• Valenti Gonzaga, Luigi. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed April 12, 2017.
• Entry on Luigi Valenti Gonzaga on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved April 12, 2017.
• Entry about Luigi Valenti Gonzaga on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

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predecessor	Office	successor
Leonardo Antonelli	Cardinal Bishop of Porto 1807–1808	Alessandro Mattei
Francesco Saverio de Zelada	Librarian of the Roman Church 1802–1808	Giuseppe Albani
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis	Cardinal Bishop of Albano 1795–1807	Antonio Dugnani