Niccolò Oddi
Niccolò Oddi (born September 26, 1715 in Perugia , † May 25, 1767 in Arezzo ) was an Italian clergyman, cardinal , diplomat and archbishop of the Catholic Church ; shortly before his death he became a Jesuit .
Life
Early years
He was born as the eldest of five children of Count Marcantonio Oddi and his wife Altavilla, b. Ranieri. His great-uncle was Cardinal Antonio Banchieri (1667-1733), his uncle Cardinal Giacomo Oddi (1679-1770).
Through the latter, who also served as Bishop of Viterbo from 1749 until his death , Niccolò Oddi entered the clergy. On December 15, 1746 he entered the service of the Roman Curia as Referendario delle Die Segnature , from 1747 to 1750 he officiated at the side of his uncle as papal vice-legate for Romagna and in 1751 he was promoted to papal house prelate .
On December 26th, 1753 Oddi received the minor ordinations , on December 30th of that year he became a deacon , on January 1st, 1754 he was ordained a priest .
Archbishop and Cardinal
Pope Benedict XIV appointed him titular archbishop of Traianopolis in Rhodope on January 14, 1754 , and on January 20, his uncle Giacomo Oddi gave him episcopal ordination in the Cathedral of Viterbo . On February 12 of the same year, Niccolò Oddi was appointed Apostolic Nuncio in Cologne ; he arrived there on August 9th. On December 4, 1759, Oddi became nuncio in Lucerne , from where he was recalled in February 1764. In January Pope Clement XIII. appointed the Archbishop as Sondernuntius for the election of Archduke Joseph as Roman-German King on March 27th in Frankfurt am Main , on which occasion he succeeded in strengthening papal interests. Associated with this were diplomatic consultations in southwest Germany, which Oddi accompanied by the later Cardinal Giuseppe Garampi (1725–1792) from April to September 1764 a. a. led to Mainz , Mannheim , Heidelberg and Bruchsal .
Niccolò Oddi had already been promoted to Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Ravenna on February 20, 1764 , and Pope Clement XIII raised him on September 26, 1766 . cardinal with the title of Santa Maria in Aracoeli . On December 1, he became the Papal Legate of the Romagna Region, based in Ravenna .
In March 1767, Cardinal Oddi left Rome to return to Ravenna, but also visited his hometown of Perugia. Here he fell ill and went to Arezzo with his brother Lodovico Oddi and the doctor Lorenzino Bresciani to recover.
They arrived in town on May 12, 1767. The cardinal was housed in the Capuchin monastery , but because his health deteriorated, he was moved to a Jesuit nursing home. When he saw his death approaching, Niccolò Oddi entered the Jesuit order - following a long-cherished wish . He died on May 25, 1767 in the Jesuit hospital in Arezzo and was also buried as a religious in their local church of Sant 'Ignazio .
literature
- Friedrich von Weech : Roman prelates on the German Rhine , New Year's sheets of the Baden Historical Commission , Volume 1 of the new series, Heidelberg, 1898, p. 4 and various other places; online in the Internet Archive
- Antonio Menniti Ippolito: Oddi, Niccolò. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 79: Nursio – Ottolini Visconti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2013.
Web links
- ODDI, SJ, Niccolò (1715-1767). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 8, 2015.
- Entry on Niccolò Oddi on catholic-hierarchy.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oddi, Niccolò |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian clergyman, cardinal, diplomat and archbishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perugia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1767 |
| Place of death | Arezzo |