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Giovanni Andrea Archetti

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Giovanni Andrea Archetti
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseSabina
Installed2 April 1800
Term ended5 November 1805
PredecessorGiovanni Archinto
SuccessorIppolito Antonio Vincenti Mareri
Other post(s)Bishop of Ascoli Piceno
Previous post(s)Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio (1784‍–‍1800)
Orders
Created cardinal20 September 1784
by Pius VI
Personal details
Born(1731-09-11)11 September 1731
Died5 November 1805(1805-11-05) (aged 74)
Ascoli, Papal States

Giovanni Andrea Archetti (11 September 1731 – 5 November 1805) was an Italian cardinal.

Biography

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Born in Brescia, Lombardy, Archetti studied canon and civil law in La Sapienza University of Rome. He was ordained priest on 10 September 1775, elected titular archbishop of Chalcedon (Calcedonia) on the next day, and named Apostolic nuncio in Poland on September 18, 1775. He was instrumental[weasel words] in the failure of the Zamoyski Code.[further explanation needed]

Archetti was made cardinal priest in the consistory of 20 September 1784 by Pope Pius VI, with the title of Sant'Eusebio and appointed apostolic legate in Bologna the following year. He was transferred to the see of Ascoli Piceno with personal title of archbishop on 1 June 1795. He took part in the Papal conclave of 1799/1800 in Venice. On 2 April 1800 he was named cardinal bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Sabina, retaining the see of Ascoli Piceno.

He died in 1805 in Ascoli.

References

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Books and articles

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  • Archetti, Giovanni Andrea; Ivan Sergejevič Gagarin (1872). Un monce du pape à la cour de Catherine II (in French). Paris: V. Palmè.


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