Giuseppe Accoramboni JUD (24 September 1672 – 21 March 1747) was an Italian Cardinal who served as

bishop of Imola The Roman Catholic Diocese of Imola ( la, Diocesis Imolensis) is a territory in Romagna, northern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bologna.

. Accoramboni was born in Castel de Preci, diocese of

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and was

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on the same day. He was educated that the

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where he earned a doctorate in utroque iure, (both canon and civil law) on 6 May 1694.

Early life

He worked as an auditor of Michelangelo Cardinal Conti future Pope Innocent XIII. He also served as a Sub-datary of His Holiness from 1721. He was a canon of the patriarchal Vatican basilica and worked at the

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. He was ordained on 14 February 1723. He served on the Supreme Tribunals of the Apostolic Signatura and of Grace,

Episcopate

He was appointed archbishop of ''Filippi'' ''

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'' on 11 September 1724 and was consecrated on 21 September by

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with Mondilio Orsini,

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of ''Corinthus'', and Pierre-Guérin de Tencin,

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, serving as co-consecrators. He served as a consultor of the Ss.CC. of

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and of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. He was transferred to the see of Imola, with personal title of archbishop and retaining all his other posts on 12 April 1728.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed

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of ''

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'' in the consistory of 20 September 1728. He participated in the conclave of 1730, which elected Pope Clement XII. He was also able to participate in the conclave of 1740, which elected

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. He was appointed to the order of Cardinal-Bishops taking the suburbicarian see of Frascati on 11 March 1743. He died in 1747, around 9 p.m. His body was exposed in the church of S. Ignazio, Rome, and buried in that same church.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Accoramboni, Giuseppe 1672 births 1747 deaths 18th-century Italian cardinals Bishops of Imola Cardinal-bishops of Frascati People from Spoleto