Sinibaldo Doria
Sinibaldo Doria | |
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Cardinal, Genova | |
Died | 2 December 1733 Benevento | (aged 69)
Buried | Benevento Cathedral |
Sinibaldo Doria (
Life
Sinibaldo Doria was born in
Based in Rome, he took up a career in the administration of the Papal States. On 13 July 1690 he was made Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature of Justice and of Grace,[3] and immediately he was appointed as Governor of Tivoli where in 1691 he successfully faced the cases of plague coming from Naples.[2] He career followed with many appointments as governor of towns: Prelate of Fano on 16 November 1691, Vice-legatus of Ferrara in 1693, Governor of Montalto on 1 August 1695, Governor of Ascoli Piceno in 1698, Governor of Macerata on 3 January 1701.[3]
From 4 November 1706 to 12 November 1711 he was Vice-legate of Avignon.[3] Living in Avignon, he was the governor of such town as well as the financial administrator of all the Comtat Venaissin, an enclave of the Papal States into France. The period was extremely difficult, due to the War of the Spanish Succession in which he was encharged to send secret information to Rome and in Spain. In 1708 he was asked to enlist and send 3000 soldiers in the Papal States. He had to face the open hostility of France who increased the custom duties, as well as the famine in 1709 and 1710 and the floods of the Rhône in 1711.[2]
In 1711 he was appointed Preaceptor (tutor) of
In October 1721, he became Master of the Chamber of
At Benevento, the local Cardinal Niccolò Coscia, who had been a protégé of Benedict XIII and an embezzler, had become bishop. Clement XII appointed Doria in place of Coscia to return the diocese to the normality, but most of the local population supported Coscia who had given them advantages. The local population rose up in revolt and the situation required intervention of the army.[2]
The appointment as Bishop of Benevento occurred on 21 May 1731, and the following 24 September Sinibaldo Doria was appointer
References
- OCLC 53276621.
- ^ ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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- ^ a b David Cheney. "Sinibaldo Cardinal Doria". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ Ramadori, Michela (2013). Raccolte bibliografiche e oggetti d’arte nei palazzi romani del Seicento e del Settecento: disposizioni e correlazioni (PDF) (PhD). Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". p. 110.