Girolamo Simoncelli (1522,

Orvieto Orvieto () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are compl ...

, then in the Papal States – 24 February 1605, Rome) was an Italian cardinal.

Life

Simoncelli was made a cardinal by his great-uncle,

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, in the consistory of 22 December 1553. He was elected

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in 1554 and administrator in 1570. He took part in the two conclaves in

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and

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1555, those in 1559 and 1565–66, the two in

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and October–December 1590, and those in

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and 1592. He was cardinal protopriest from 1598 onwards and vice-dean of the College of Cardinals from 1603. The

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was possibly forged in order to support Simoncelli's bid for the papacy in the second conclave of 1590. In 1559, the bishop of Orvieto and cardinal, Girolamo Simoncelli, had acquired property for the monastery Buon Gesù, Orvieto.

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*http://www.diocesituscolana.it/cronologia/resfrascati.asp?idx=gs1600 1522 births 1605 deaths 16th-century Italian cardinals Cardinal-nephews People from Orvieto 17th-century Italian cardinals {{Italy-RC-cardinal-stub