Carlo Pio di Savoia (7 April 1622 – 13 February 1689) was an Italian

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of the Pio di Savoia family. He was the nephew of Cardinal

Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia (5 January 1585 – 1 June 1641) was an Italian cardinal of the Pio di Savoia family. He was the uncle of Cardinal Carlo Pio di Savoia. Life Pio di Savoia was born in Ferrara; his father was Enea Pio di Savoia, Si ...

Early life

Pio was born 7 April 1622, the son of Ascanio Pio di Savoia and Eleonora Mattei. At age 17, Pio went to

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and then travelled throughout Europe until 1641. Thereafter he joined the army of the

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as a

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but was captured by the Florentines in Moncessino. He was released at the end of the war and was appointed

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-general of the

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in 1650. Two years later he bought a position (as was the custom) as personal treasurer to

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. On 5 Sep 1655, he was

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bishop by Giambattista Spada,

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of Santa Susanna, with Carlo Nembrini, Bishop of Parma, and Giacomo Theodoli, Bishop of Forlì, serving as

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Ecclesiastic career

On 2 March 1654 he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Innocent and was appointed Cardinal-deacon of the church of Santa Maria in Domnica. Over the subsequent two decades he was appointed to various churches as Cardinal-deacon and Cardinal-priest including: *Cardinal-deacon of

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(11 February 1664) *Cardinal-priest of Santa Prisca (14 November 1667) *Cardinal-priest of San Crisogono (28 January 1675) *Cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere (1 December 1681) *Cardinal-bishop of Sabina (15 February 1683) Between 1673 and his death in 1689, he served as Cardinal-protector of

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