Carlo Pio di Savoia
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Most Reverend Carlo Pio di Savoia | |
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Church | Catholic Church |
Orders | |
Consecration | 5 Sep 1655 by Giambattista Spada |
Personal details | |
Born | 7 April 1622 |
Died | 13 February 1689 (age 66) |
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Carlo Pio di Savoia (7 April 1622 – 13 February 1689) was an
Cardinal of the Pio di Savoia family. He was the nephew of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
.
Early life
Pio was born 7 April 1622, the son of Ascanio Pio di Savoia and Eleonora Mattei.
At age 17, Pio went to
Apostolic Chamber in 1650. Two years later he bought a position (as was the custom) as personal treasurer to Pope Innocent X.[1]
On 5 Sep 1655, he was
co-consecrators.[1]
Ecclesiastic career
On 2 March 1654 he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Innocent and was appointed
Cardinal-deacon of the church of Santa Maria in Domnica. Over the subsequent two decades he was appointed to various churches as Cardinal-deacon and Cardinal-priest including:[2]
- Cardinal-deacon of Sant'Eustachio (11 February 1664)
- Cardinal-priest of Santa Prisca(14 November 1667)
- Cardinal-priest of San Crisogono(28 January 1675)
- Cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere(1 December 1681)
- Cardinal-bishop of Sabina (15 February 1683)
Between 1673 and his death in 1689, he served as Cardinal-protector of Austria.
References
- ^ OCLC 53276621. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- [self-published]
Sources
- Baroni, Pier Giovanni (1969). Un cardinale del Seicento: Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia (in Italian). Bologna: Ponte nuovo.
- Cardella, Lorenzo (1793). Memorie storiche de'cardinali della santa Romana chiesa (in Italian). Vol. VII. Roma: Pagliarini. pp. 115–118.