Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra (8 May 1708 – 18 January 1763) was an Italian

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of the noble Colonna di Sciarra family.

Biography

Born in

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, he was the brother of Prospero Colonna di Sciarra and grand-uncle of Benedetto Barberini, who, after the merger of the

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and Colonna families, was also referred to as Benedetto Barberini Colonna di Sciarra. He was a distant relative of Oddone Colonna, who was elected to the papacy as

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. He was also lay abbot of Santa Maria in Sylvis, in

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. Between 1756 and his death at Rome in 1763, he was

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1708 births 1763 deaths Girolamo Nobility from Rome 18th-century Italian cardinals Clergy from Rome {{Italy-RC-cardinal-stub