Tommaso Maria Ghilini

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Tommaso Maria Cardinal Ghilini

Tommaso Maria Ghilini (born August 5, 1718 in Alessandria , † April 3, 1787 in Turin ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Origin and early years

Ghilini came from an alessandrian aristocratic family who held a seat in the city's Senate. He was the youngest of six children of Marchese Tommaso Ghilini and his wife Francesca Botta-Adorno, a noblewoman from Pavia. He studied first at the Collegio Clementino in Rome, later at the University of Turin , where he received his doctorate on June 8, 1740 as Doctor iuris utriusque . From 1745 he attended the Pontifical Academy for the Ecclesiastical Nobility , where he studied diplomacy. As early as 1724 he was appointed to the knightly order of St. John of Jerusalem and was accepted into the clergy on July 3, 1727 by tonsure at the age of eight . Like his father before him, Tommaso Maria Ghilini served as gentiluomo di camera at the court of the King of Savoy , Viktor Amadeus II , and his successor Charles Emanuel II. He later went to Rome and practiced the rights for two years before entering the service the curia entered. On June 8, 1747 he was a trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature . He subsequently worked in the administration of the Papal States Ghilini was in May 1754 relator of the Sacra Consulta . On December 22nd, 1759 he was ordained deacons and on March 22nd of the following year he was ordained a priest .

Curia Bishop

Tommaso Maria Ghilini was elevated to Titular Archbishop of Rhodus on July 18, 1763 . He was ordained bishop on July 24, 1763 in Rome by Pope Clement XIII. personally; Co-consecrators were the Archbishops of the Curia Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini , Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, and Giovanni Carlo Boschi . Ghilini was nuncio in the Austrian Netherlands from 1763 to 1775 . The papal missions in the Netherlands, England, Ireland and Scotland were subordinate to the nunciature. After Pius VI. had called him back to Rome, Tommaso Maria Ghilini became secretary of the Consulta in November 1775 , a position he held until he was promoted to cardinal.

Cardinalate

Cardinal coat of arms of Ghilini, modern tracing

In the consistory of June 1, 1778 Pope Pius VI. him as a cardinal priest in the college of cardinals . Tommaso Maria Ghilini received the red hat on June 4, 1778, and San Callisto was awarded to him as the titular church on July 20 of the same year . He was a member of the Congregation Propaganda Fide , the Congregation for Bishops and Regulars , the Consistorial Congregation and the Congregation for Indulgences and Holy Relics . In December 1779 he became cardinal protector of the Maronites . On February 17, 1783 he moved to the titular church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva . He made his will in Turin in January 1787.

Tommaso Maria Ghilini died on April 3, 1787 in the Minorite Convent in Turin after a stroke .

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SURNAME Ghilini, Tommaso Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Alessandria
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1787
Place of death Turin