Galeazzo Marescotti
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Prefect of the Congregation of the Council (1692–95) (1710–15)Vice-Camerlengo of the Apostolic Camera (1698) Secretary of the Commission of Roman and Universal Inquisition (1700–16) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede (1700–08) Protopriest of the College of Cardinals |
Galeazzo Marescotti (1 October 1627 – 3 July 1726) was an Italian cardinal.[1]
Biography
He was born in
From 1661 to 1663 he was governor of
On 13 August 1670 he was appointed apostolic nuncio in Spain by Pope Clement X, and remained at that post in Madrid till 1675. Pope Clement X elevated him to the rank of cardinal in the consistory of 27 May 1675, and assigned him the title of San Bernardo alle Terme. From 1676 to 1679 he was papal governor in Ferrara. In 1679 he was appointed Bishop of Tivoli. In the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, he built for the canons at his own expense a finely worked walnut wood choir and adorned a chapel with colored marble and other ornaments. He reformed the clergy with a new synod. Donated to the cathedral the sum of 500 scudi, with the obligation of an anniversary for the repose of his soul and erected several chapels. In 1684 resigned the bishopric in the hands of Innocent XI . The city was always in the heart, in fact in 1705 he founded the city, at its expense, a monastery for nuns of St. Elizabeth, which finally gave in 1721 the most beautiful and precious furnishings of his private chapel.
In 1681 received the title of Saints Quirico and Giuditta. In 1700 received the title of Santa Prassede. In 1708 he received the title of San Lorenzo in Lucina. On his death he was the oldest member of the
Episcopal succession
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While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[2]
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References
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