Giovanni Francesco Negroni

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Giovanni Francesco Negroni
Cardinal,
Bishop)
by Marcantonio Barbarigo
Created cardinal2 September 1686
by Pope Innocent XI
Personal details
Born(1629-10-03)October 3, 1629
Genoa
Died1 January 1713(1713-01-01) (aged 83)
Roma
BuriedChurch of the Gesù

Giovanni Francesco Negroni (1629 – 1713) was a

Bishop of Faenza from 1687 to 1697, and as Legate (i.e. Governor) of Bologna
from 1687 to 1690.

Life

Giovanni Francesco Negroni was born in Genua on 3 October 1629 to a senatorial family.[1] He graduated in utroque iure in Perugia.[2]

He took up a career in the administration of the Papal States: governor of Terni in 1658, Vice-legato of Romagna in 1661, Governor of Jesi in 1663, Governor of Orvieto in 1664, Governor of Spoleto in 1665 and in the same year he was appointed Protonotary apostolic. Governor of Perugia in 1668.[3]

In 1669 or 1670 he purchased the title of clerk of the Apostolic Camera in Rome.[2] In October 1679 in Rome he took the offices of Prefect of the Annona with the responsibility for the grain supply to the city of Rome, and in 1681 he became General Treasurer of the Apostolic Camera, working with Pope Innocent XI to reduce the expenses of the Papal States, and in that position he succeeded to perform a restructuring of the debt of the State.[2]

On 2 September 1686, Pope Innocent XI appointed him

Cardinal deacon with the title of San Cesareo de Appia.[4]

On 7 July 1687 he was appointed bishop of

episcopal consecration followed on 20 July in Rome by the hands of cardinal Marcantonio Barbarigo. On 10 November 1687 he was appointed Legate (i.e. Governor) of Bologna. This office, as usually, lasted three years.[3]

Negroni paid and organized the renovation of the chapel of S. Francesco Saverio in the Church of the Gesù,[5] the main church of the Jesuits, also to reaffirm his status of Cardinal Protector of the Jesuits.[2]

During the

Cardinal-Nephew to Pope Clement X.[2]

As bishop of Faenza he lived in that town only occasionally, and in 1694 he held a diocesan synod.[2]

On 2 January 1696 he was promoted to

Cardinal priest with the title of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli.[4] He resigned the bishopric of Faenza on 11 November 1697, passing the last years in Rome, where he died on 1 January 1713.[4] He was buried in the chapel of S. Francesco Saverio in the Church of the Gesù.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Salvador Miranda. "Negroni, Gianfrancesco". Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-8-81200032-6
    .
  3. ^ a b Weber, Christoph (1994). Legati e governatori dello Stato della Chiesa [1550–1809] (in Italian). Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali. pp. 157, 183, 225, 277, 323, 368, 388, 395, 798.
  4. ^ a b c David Cheney. "Gianfrancesco Cardinal Negroni". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  5. ^ Canepa, Susanna (2007). "Monsignor Giovanni Francesco Negrone: "spirito e fuoco" per la Chiesa del Gesù in Roma" (PDF). La Casana: Periodico Bimestrale della Cassa di Risparmio di Genova (in Italian) (2): 12–23.
  6. JSTOR 44627092
    . Retrieved 12 September 2020.
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