Ulderico Carpegna

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Ordination history of
Ulderico Carpegna
History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained byUnknown
Priestly ordination
Ordained byUnknown
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator
O.F.M. Conv.
24 May 1648
Francesco Maria Falcucci [it]8 January 1651
Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni2 May 1666
Peter Creagh26 May 1676

Ulderico Carpegna (24 June 1595 – 24 January 1679) was an Italian jurist and

Cardinal
.

Biography

Born at

Scavolino, he was from a family of the Roman nobility, connected with the Montefeltro family.[1]

He became

bishop of Porto and Santa-Rufina in 1675.[3] He died in Rome. Through his episcopal consecration of Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, he is part of the episcopal lineage of Pope Francis. He is also connected to the lineage of Pope Benedict XVI
.

Carpegna was a patron of

Fontana di Trevi. As a token of gratitude, Borromini named the prelate executor of his will and bequeathed him money and objects of considerable value "for", as he wrote, "the infinite debt I have toward him".[4]

The Fondo Carpegna of the

Vatican Secret Archives contains material relating to Ulderico Carpegna and Gaspare Carpegna.[1]

Episcopal succession

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Ulderico Carpegna" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017
  3. ^ a b Moroni, Gaetano (1841). Dizionario Di Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica Da S. Pietro Sino Ai Nostri Giorni (etc.) (in Italian). Dalla Tipografia Emiliana. p. 101. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  4. ^ Salvagni, Isabella. Palazzo Carpegna, 1577-1934. Rome: Edizioni De Luca, 2000, 230 pp., 117 ill., 70 in color

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