Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
Alessandro Crescenzi,
C.R.S. (1607 – 8 May 1688) was a Roman Catholic cardinal who served as
Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1685–1688),
Archbishop (Personal Title) of Recanati e Loreto (1676–1682),
Titular Patriarch of Alexandria (1671–1676),
Bishop of Bitonto (1652–1668),
Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli (1644–1652), and
Bishop of Termoli (1643–1644).
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Biography
Alessandro Agostino Crescenzi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1607, the son of Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Anna Massimi.
[1] He is related to Cardinal
Marcello Crescenzi (named 1542) and is the nephew of Cardinal
Pier Paolo Crescenzi (named 1611).
[1] He was ordained a priest in the
Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha .
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On 13 July 1643, he was appointed
Bishop of Termoli by
Pope Urban VIII .
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[2] In Rome, on 26 July 1643, he was consecrated bishop by
Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore) ,
[1]
Cardinal-Deacon of
Sant'Eustachio .
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On 13 June 1644, he was appointed
Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli by Pope Urban VIII.
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On 26 August 1652, he was appointed
Bishop of Bitonto by
Pope Innocent X .
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[2] Pope Innocent X appointed him
Apostolic Nuncio to Savoy (Turin), where he served until 1658.
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On 14 May 1668, he resigned as Bishop of Bitonto.
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[2] On 23 December 1670, he was named Prefect of the Cubiculi of His Holiness (Maestro di Camera) by
Pope Clement X .
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[1] On 19 January 1671, he was promoted by Pope Clement X to the titular post of
Titular Patriarch of Alexandria .
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[2] On 27 May 1675, he was installed as
Cardinal Priest of
Santa Prisca in the consistory of 1675.
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On 24 February 1676, he was appointed
Bishop of Recanati e Loreto by Pope Clement X, where he served until his resignation on 9 January 1682.
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[2] As cardinal, he participated in the
conclave of 1676 which elected
Pope Innocent XI .
[1] On 9 April 1685, he was named
camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals .
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He died in Rome on 8 May 1688, and was buried in the church of
Santa Maria in Vallicella .
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Episcopal succession
Episcopal succession of Alessandro Crescenzi
While bishop, he was the
principal consecrator of:
[2]
Andrea Bonito ,
Bishop of Capaccio (1677);
Vitus Piluzzi ,
Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis (1678);
Stephanus Cosimi ,
Archbishop of Split (1678);
Bernardino Belluzzi ,
Bishop of Montefeltro (1678);
Francesco Scannagatta ,
Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (1679);
Carlo Berlingeri ,
Archbishop of Santa Severina (1679);
Francesco Megale ,
Bishop of Isola (1679);
Giacomo Villani ,
Bishop of Caiazzo (1679);
Giovanni Battista Nepita ,
Bishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia (1680);
Tommaso Guzzoni ,
Bishop of Sora (1681);
Andrea Brancaccio ,
Bishop of Conversano (1681);
Sebastien Knab ,
Archbishop of Nakhchivan (1682);
Giovanni Battista Giberti ,
Bishop of Cava de' Tirreni (1683);
Giuseppe Felice Barlacci ,
Bishop of Narni (1683);
Bernardin Marchese ,
Bishop of Sarsina (1683);
Stefano Ghirardelli ,
Bishop of Alatri (1683);
Agostino Fieschi ,
Bishop of Accia and Mariana (1683);
Giambattista Quaranta ,
Bishop of Larino (1683);
Francesco Antonio Leopardi ,
Bishop of Marsico Nuovo (1683);
Domenico Menna ,
Bishop of Minori (1683);
Vincenzo Maria Durazzo ,
Bishop of Savona (1683);
Ferdinando de Rojas (Roxas),
Bishop of Vigevano (1683);
Francesco Maria Moles ,
Bishop of Nola (1684);
Annibale de Pietropaulo ,
Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (1684);
Horatius Ondedei ,
Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado (1684);
Giovanni Battista de Belli ,
Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita (1684);
Fulvio Crivelli (Cribelli),
Bishop of Tricarico (1684);
Antonio Polcenigo ,
Bishop of Feltre (1684);
Domenico Minio ,
Bishop of Caorle (1684);
Giambattista Rubini ,
Bishop of Vicenza (1684);
Giovanni Battista De Pace ,
Bishop of Capaccio (1684);
Giovanni Battista Sanudo ,
Bishop of Treviso (1684);
Pier Giulio Delfino ,
Bishop of Capodistria (1684);
Nicolaus Gabrieli ,
Bishop of Novigrad (1684);
Joannes Cuppari ,
Bishop of Trogir (1684);
Stefano David ,
Bishop of Krk (1684);
Giambattista Morea ,
Bishop of Lacedonia (1684);
Pietro Luigi Malaspina ,
Bishop of Cortona (1684);
Giovanni Riccanale ,
Bishop of Boiano (1684);
Girolamo Compagnone ,
Archbishop of Rossano (1685);
Angelo Cerasi ,
Bishop of Bovino (1685);
Giovanni Battista Antici ,
Bishop of Amelia (1685);
Pietro Valentini ,
Bishop of Sovana (1685);
Emiddio Lenti ,
Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani (1685);
Domenico Valvassori ,
Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1686);
François Genet ,
Bishop of Vaison (1686);
Paolo Naldini (bishop) ,
Bishop of Capodistria (1686);
Muzio Dandini ,
Bishop of Senigallia (1686);
Filippo Tani ,
Bishop of Città Ducale (1686);
Giulio Giacomo Castellani ,
Bishop of Cagli (1686);
Baldassare de Benavente ,
Bishop of Potenza (1686);
Filippo Massarenghi ,
Bishop of Bitonto (1686);
and the
principal co-consecrator of:
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Camillo Astalli-Pamphilj ,
Bishop of Catania (1661);
Antonio Bottis ,
Bishop of Minori (1670);
Giuseppe Labonia ,
Bishop of Montemarano (1670);
Mario Alberizzi ,
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1671);
Pompeo Varese ,
Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (1671);
Domenico Massimo ,
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone (1671);
Fabrizio Spada ,
Titular Archbishop of Patrae (1672);
Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt ,
Bishop of Wrocław (1673);
Simon Gaudenti ,
Bishop of Ossero (1673);
Andrea Francolisio d'Aquino ,
Bishop of Tricarico (1673); and
Giuseppe di Giacomo ,
Bishop of Bovino (1673).
References
Sources
Cardella, Lorenzo. Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa , (in Italian) , Vol. 7 (Roma: Pagliarini 1793), pp. 231–233.
External links
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