Girolamo Colonna

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Not to be confused with Cardinal Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra.
Archbishop of Bologna
(1632–45)

Girolamo Colonna (23 March 1604 – 4 September 1666) was an Italian

Roman Catholic Church and member of the noble Colonna family.[1]

Biography

Colonna was born at

Francesco Barberini and Antonio Barberini (Antonio the Younger).[2]

Colonna was uncle to the children of his sister and brother-in-law,

Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena
.

He was elevated to cardinal on 30 August 1627 by

Barberini Pope Urban VIII (the uncle of his brother-in-law Taddeo) at the insistence of his sister, Anna.[3]

After the death of Pope Urban, he participated in the

Holy Year of 1650. He took part in the conclave of 1655 that elected Pope Alexander VII
.

Pope Innocent X appointed him as Ambassador of the

Infanta Margarita
of Spain (daughter of Philip IV) and as legate accompanied her to Germany.

He was accompanied to Spain by

Pamphili
.

King Philip IV died in 1665 and Colonna assisted in the provision of last rites. At the death of the King, Colonna returned to his native Italy but died on 4 September 1666 at the Dominican convent in Finale Marina, near Genoa.

Letters from Milan and Genoa, dated 15 January 1667, verified the news. After six years, his remains were moved to Rome and buried in the chapel of his family in the patriarchal Lateran basilica.

References

  1. ^ "Florida International University - Girolamo Colonna". Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  2. ^ Worldroots - Barberini Archived October 15, 2009, at the Portuguese Web Archive
  3. ^ Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals by John Bargrave, edited by James Craigie Robertson (reprint; 2009)
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