Andrea Gioannetti

Andrea Cardinal Gioannetti OSBCam (actually Melchiorre Benedetto Lucidoro Gioannetti ) ( born January 6 in 1722 in Bologna, † April 8, 1800 ibid ) was Archbishop of Bologna.

Life

Gioannetti occurred in 1739 in the monastery of Classe / Ravenna of Kamaldulenserordens one. He studied theology, became a teacher in the schools of the Order and in June 1753 a theological adviser of the Archbishop of Ravenna, Ferdinando Romoaldo Guiccioli. Andrea Gioannetti 1763 was abbot of his monastery home Classe, in 1773 abbot of the monastery of San Gregorio al Celio Monte in Rome.

He was born on January 20, 1776 Titular Bishop of Hemeria and Apostolic Administrator of Bologna. His episcopal ordination was performed on February 4, 1776 in Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albano. On December 15, 1777 he was officially appointed Archbishop of Bologna. Pope Pius VI. appointed him in pectore on June 23, 1777 cardinal. This step was also on December 15, 1777, the day of his elevation to Archbishop of Bologna, published.

Gioannetti took on San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice at the conclave of 1799/1800 part, but could not choose Pope Pius VII when he died a few weeks earlier. After his death more than two years Sedisvakanz entered on the chair of the Archdiocese of Bologna, normal ecclesiastical states could in any case only after the fall of the Napoleonic system in 1814 will be re-established.