Giovanni Andrea Archetti (11 September 1731 – 5 November 1805) was an
Italian
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cardinal
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.
Biography
Born in
Brescia
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,
Lombardy
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, Archetti studied canon and civil law in
La Sapienza
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University of
Rome
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. He was ordained priest on 10 September 1775, elected
titular
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archbishop
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of Chalcedon (Calcedonia) on the next day, and named
Apostolic nuncio
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in Poland on September 18, 1775. He was instrumental in the failure of the
Zamoyski Code
Zamoyski Code ( or ''Zbiór praw sądowych na mocy konstytucji roku 1776 przez J.W. Andrzeja Zamoyskiego ekskanclerza koronnego ułożony...'' These sentiments were used by two foreign powers, which did not want to see the Code passed for their own ...
.
Archetti was made
cardinal priest
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in the
consistory
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of 20 September 1784 by
Pope Pius VI
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, with the title of
Sant'Eusebio
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and appointed apostolic
legate
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in
Bologna
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the following year. He was transferred to the
see of
Ascoli Piceno
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Geography
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with personal title of archbishop on 1 June 1795. He took part in the
Papal conclave of 1799/1800 in
Venice
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. On 2 April 1800 he was named
cardinal bishop
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of the
suburbicarian diocese
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of
Sabina, retaining the see of Ascoli Piceno.
He died in 1805 in
Ascoli.
References
Books and articles
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External links
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church-The Biographical Dictionary
1731 births
1805 deaths
Religious leaders from Brescia
18th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
Bishops in le Marche
18th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Sabina
Apostolic nuncios to Poland
19th-century Italian cardinals
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