Andrea Gioannetti
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Andrea Gioannetti (1722–1800) was an
Biography
Andrea Gioannetti was born in Bologna on 6 January 1722, the son of Baldassarre Francesco Gioannetti and Pellegrina Zanoni.[1] His baptismal name was Melchiorre Benedetto Lucidoro Gioannetti.[1]
In 1739, he joined the
He was
On 29 January 1776, he was elected titular bishop of Emeria and became administrator of the Archdiocese of Bologna.[1] He was
In the
In 1792, the Archdiocese of Bologna was overrun with Catholic priests fleeing the French Revolution.[1] Cardinal Gioannetti subsequently wrote denouncing the revolutionaries.[1] In June 1796, the French troops of Napoleon entered the Archdiocese of Bologna.[1] Over the next several years, Gioannetti worked to secure the position of Catholicism as the state religion, a position recognized in the March 1797 constitution of the Cispadane Republic, but Catholicism's favored position was reversed when the Cispadane Republic was merged with the Cisalpine Republic in July 1797.[1] In March 1799, Austrian and Russian troops occupied Bologna, enabling Gioannetti to reestablish his authority.[1]
He participated in the
References
Sources
- Andrea Giovannetti (1788). Synodus dioecesana Bononiensis ab eminentissimo et reverendissimo domino D. Andrea Joannetto ... celebrata diebus 2. 3. et 4. Septembris ann. 1788 (in Latin). Bologna: apud Longhi et a Vulpe impressores archiepiscopales.
- Luciano Meluzzi (1967). Gli arcivescovi di Bologna (in Italian). Bologna: Meluzzi. pp. 68–74.