Flavio Orsini (1532 – 16 May 1581) was a papal bureaucrat, an Italian bishop, and a
cardinal
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Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
of the
Catholic Church. He was son of Ferdinando
Orsini, 5th duke of Gravina; and Beatrice Ferrillo, daughter and heiress of Giovanni Alfonso Ferrillo, Conte di Muro Lucano.
Biography
Born in
Rome, he was appointed
bishop of Muro Lucano by
Pope Pius IV
Pope Pius IV ( it, Pio IV; 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death in December 1565. Born in Milan, his family considered ...
(Medici) in consistory on 29 November 1560.
He held various offices in the
Roman Curia. On 10 July 1561, Flavio Orsini, Bishop of Muro and Auditor of Causes in the Apostolic Camera, transmitted a ''motu proprio'' of
Pope Pius IV
Pope Pius IV ( it, Pio IV; 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death in December 1565. Born in Milan, his family considered ...
granting a feudal investiture to Baldassare Rangoni of Modena. On 3 September 1563, the Bishop of Muro was judge ordinary in the curia, hearing a testamentary dispute from the diocese of Ajaccio.
He was transferred to the diocese of
Spoleto on 16 December 1562 by
Pope Pius IV
Pope Pius IV ( it, Pio IV; 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 December 1559 to his death in December 1565. Born in Milan, his family considered ...
.
In his fourth consistory for the creation of cardinals, on 12 March 1565, Pope Pius IV named Flavio Orsini a cardinal-priest, and on 15 May assigned him the ''
titulus
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'' of
San Giovanni a Porta Latina. On 17 November 1565, he chose to be moved to ("opted for")
SS. Marcellino e Pietro
Saints Marcellinus and Peter (sometimes called ''Petrus Exorcista'' - Peter the Exorcist;Alban Butler, Kathleen Jones, Paul Burns, ''Butler's Lives of the Saints'' (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997), 14. it, Marcellino e Pietro) are ...
, and on 9 July 1578 to
Santa Prisca.
On 19 September 1570,
Pope Pius V (Ghislieri) appointed a commission of two cardinals, Giovanni Poliziani and Flavio Orsini, to complete the repairs on the Aqua Vergine and connect various fountains, including the Trevi.
Pope Gregory XIII (Boncompagni) sent Bishop Orsini to France in 1572, to attempt to persuade King
Charles IX of France to join in a crusade against the Turks. He arrived in Paris on October 8, and was still in France in the second half of December. His mission was a failure.
On 11 April 1580, he was granted a coadjutor bishop with the right of succession, in the person of his nephew Pietro.
Flavio Orsini died in
Pozzuoli, near
Naples, on 16 May 1581.
[Benigni (1899), p. 496. Eubel III, p. 41, no. 36.]
References
Books
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*Cardella, Lorenzo (1793). ''Memorie storiche de' cardinali della santa Romana chiesa''.
Tomo quinto (5) Roma: Pagliarini. pp. 94-95.
*Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario (1716). ''L' Istoria della Chiesa di S. Giovanni avanti Porta Latina'' Roma: Antonio de'Rossi. pp. 384-385.
*Martuscelli, Luigi (1896)
''Numistrone e Muro-Lucano: Note appunti e ricordi storici.''. Napoli: R. Pesole. pp. 263-265.
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1532 births
1581 deaths
Clergy from Rome
Flavio
16th-century Italian cardinals
Bishops of Spoleto
16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops