Giovanni Francesco Ginetti (12 December 1626 – 18 September 1691) was a nephew of Cardinal

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(1585-1681). Under the reign of Pope

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he was appointed him Referendary of the

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, later Sergeant Major of the Papal Army (1625-1635) and then ''Treasurer General'' of the

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. He was also deputy governor of

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. Gianfrancesco Ginetti was created cardinal deacon in the consistory of 1 September 1681 under

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; on 22 September he received the deaconry of S. Maria della Scala in

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. On 12 January 1682 he opted for the deaconry of

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On 5 June 1684 Cardinal Gianfrancesco Ginetti was appointed

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He participated in the Conclave of 1689,S. Miranda:
Papal Conclave, 1689 which elected

Alexander VIII Pope Alexander VIII (; 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is the most recent pope to take the ...

, and the Conclave of 1691, which elected

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. Ginetti died of

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on 18 September 1691 and was buried in his family chapel in the church of

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, opposite to his uncle.

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* Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri, Gaetano Moroni Venezia, 1845, page 237 * Documents sur le capitain Jules Mazarin - Henry Coville, Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, 1914 Vol.34, Issue 34 pp. 201–234 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ginetti, Giovanni Francesco 1626 births 1691 deaths 17th-century Italian cardinals Archbishops of Fermo 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops