Nicola Riganti

Nicola Riganti (born March 25, 1744 in Molfetta , † August 31, 1822 in Rome ) was an Italian clergyman, bishop of Ancona and Numana and cardinal .

Life

He came from a middle class family of Molfetta and was the son of Michele Riganti. In Rome he studied law at the Collegio dei Protonotari Apostolici and received his doctorate there on February 15, 1767 as Doctor iuris utriusque . On March 12, 1767 he was a trainee lawyer at the courts of justice of the Apostolic Signature . The ordination received Nicola Riganti on 14 August 1768. In January 1770 he was appointed relator ordered the Congregation for the administration of goods. He was involved in the implementation of the decree Dominus ac Redemptor to abolish the Jesuit order when he took care of the occupation of the Collegio Greco in August 1773 . Before he was promoted to the rank of cardinal, he carried out various other tasks in the Roman Curia and distinguished himself as an excellent expert on canon law.

Shortly after his election, Pope Pius VII appointed him Vice-Auditor of the Sacra Consulta in Venice and on October 30, 1800, its secretary. In December of the same year was Nicola Riganti Member of the Commission that the review of the finances of the previous one, from the Kingdom of Naples built Giunta di Stato was used. When he opposed the French occupation of Rome, Riganti was arrested on June 16, 1808 by the imperial authorities and taken into exile in Ancona. After the renewed restoration of the papal state , he returned to Rome and resumed his position as secretary of the Consulta . When Pius VII had to flee to Genoa from March 22 to June 7, 1815, Riganti was a member of the Council of State chaired by Cardinal Giulio Maria della Somaglia .

Pope Pius VII accepted him into the College of Cardinals in the consistory of March 8, 1816, and on the same day appointed him Bishop of Ancona and Numana. Nicola Riganti received the cardinal's hat on March 11th of the same year. The episcopal ordination was donated to him personally on March 21, 1816 by Pope Pius VII; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops Francesco Bertazzoli and Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio , papal sacristan . On April 29, 1816 he became a cardinal priest and was given Santi Marcellino e Pietro as the title church .

Nicola Riganti died six years later in Rome and was buried in the local church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva .

literature

• 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. 640–642 (French, online edition [accessed April 25, 2020]).

Web links

• Riganti, Nicola. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed April 25, 2020.
• Entry on Nicola Riganti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on April 25, 2020.

predecessor	Office	successor
Francesco Saverio Passeri ( Apostolic Administrator )	Bishop of Ancona and Numana 1816–1822	Giovanni Francesco Falzacappa