Tommaso Arezzo

Tommaso Cardinal Arezzo

Tommaso Arezzo (born December 16, 1756 in Orbetello , Italy , † January 3, 1833 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

He came from a Bolognese patrician family and was the son of Marchese Orazio Arezzo and his wife Maria Fitzgerald Browne from the Irish noble house of the Dukes of Linster . At the baptism , which he received on the day of his birth, he was given the first name Tommaso Maria Raimondo Leopoldo.

Tommaso Arezzo began his studies at the Collegio Nazareno in Rome and then from 1777 attended the Academy for the Ecclesiastical Nobility , where he studied diplomacy , canonical and secular law . At the University of La Sapienza , he received his doctorate iuris utriusque . As early as 1773, at the age of 16, he had become dean of the Cathedral of Girgenti (Agrigento). On February 23, 1781 he joined the Sovereign Order of Malta and on March 31 of the same year was a trainee lawyer at the tribunals of the Apostolic Signature . He was promoted to apostolic protonotary and was vice- legate in Bologna from 1785 to 1790 until he was appointed governor of Fermo on March 30, 1790 . From August 18, 1794, governor of the Marche , he had to flee on January 5, 1797 from the approaching French troops during the First Coalition War . From February 7th to March 31st, 1787 he was ad interim governor of Perugia .

On March 13, 1802, he was ordained a subdeacon , the next day the deacons - and on March 19, 1802, he was ordained a priest . On March 29 of the same year he was appointed titular archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria . He received his episcopal ordination on April 4, 1802 in the Roman church of Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj ; The archbishops Camillo Campanelli and Bernardo Sinibaldi were co-consecrators . Tommaso Arezzo was sent on a diplomatic mission to Russia in 1802 in order to bring the Orthodox Church closer to Rome.

From April 22nd, 1808 to September 6th, 1808, Tommaso Arezzo was Pro- Gubernator of Rome when Napoleonic troops marched into Rome. In 1809 he was arrested by the French and taken to Florence , later he was deported to Novara and finally to Bastia ( Corsica ). From there he escaped in 1813 and turned to Sardinia . In 1814 he again took a position in the Holy Office .

Pope Pius VII appointed him cardinal priest in the consistory of March 8, 1816 and awarded him the cardinal's hat on March 11 of the same year and the titular church of San Pietro in Vincoli on April 29, 1816 . On September 6, 1816, Tommaso Arezzo was appointed Apostolic Legate in the Province and City of Ferrara , this was confirmed in April 1829. On May 29, 1820 he became cardinal bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Sabina . He took part in the conclave of 1823 , which Annibale della Genga as Pope Leo XII. chose. He belonged to the group of moderati who tried to block Della Genga's election. He was also a participant in the conclave of 1829 , from which Pius VIII emerged as Pope. Tommaso Arezzo was Vice Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church from July 5, 1830 until his death . On July 5, 1830, he received the titular church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Commendam . Again he was among the papal voters at the conclave 1830-1831 , which Gregory XVI. lifted up on the chair Petri.

Tommaso Arezzo died on February 3, 1833 in Rome and was buried in the Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso , where the funeral service in the presence of Pope Gregory XVI had previously been held. had taken place.

Web links

• Arezzo, Tommaso. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed March 2, 2017.
• Entry on Tommaso Maria Raimondo Leopoldo Arezzo on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on March 2, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Lorenzo Litta	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina 1820–1833	Carlo Odescalchi SJ