Michele Belli

Michele Belli (born May 8, 1753 in Rome ; † March 3, 1822 ibid) was an Italian clergyman and curia bishop .

Life

He studied at the University of La Sapienza and obtained there on July 23, 1775 the title of Doctor iuris utriusque . He was ordained priest on June 1, 1776. Cardinal Michelangelo Luchi († 1802) appointed him executor . In 1803 he was a lecturer in canon law in Rome. After he did not submit to the Napoleonic occupation of Rome, he was deported to Corsica in 1812. In January 1814 he was liberated and returned to Rome.

Pope Pius VII appointed him titular Archbishop of Nazianzus on September 26, 1814 . The episcopal ordination donated to him on October 2, 1814 Lorenzo Litta , the Cardinal Bishop of Sabina ; Co-consecrators were the archbishops Tommaso Arezzo and Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri . On March 19, 1815 he was appointed Papal Assistant to the Throne . In 1815 he was investigating the files of Cardinal Jean-Siffrein Maury .

Michele Belli died in Rome in 1822 and was buried in the local church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini .

Works

• De romana sancti Petri cathedra principis apostolorum oratio (Rome 1780)
• Oratio pro solemni studiorum instauratione in Archigymnasio romano (Rome 1795)
• De feudis commentarius (Rome 1792)
• Orationes (Rome 1818)

literature

• Philippe Bountry: Prélats Référendaires et officers de curie en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) . 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. 78–79 (French, online edition [accessed April 22, 2018]).

Web links

• Entry on Michele Belli on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on April 22, 2018.