Giovanni Battista Bussi (1755–1844)

Giovanni Battista Bussi ( the Younger ) ( born January 29, 1755 in Viterbo, Papal States, † January 31, 1844 in Benevento ) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of Benevento.

Life

Bussi, who came from a noble family, studied until 1780 civil and canon law at the University La Sapienza in Rome. After 1781 the Curia under Pope Pius VI. came, he was at first, then ordained a sub-deacon deacon in 1782. The Pope gave him the title of a papal prelate house. On September 21, 1782 Bussi received the sacrament of Holy Orders. After working at the Curia, he was Governor in 1799 his hometown of Viterbo, where he stayed until 1800. Under the new Pope Pius VII, he was in February 1801 Auditor of the Roman Rota in 1809 and got a job in the Pönitentiatur. As in the same year the French occupied Rome, they took Bussi in the Castel Sant'Angelo caught and brought him to Paris, where he was set to 1814.

When he was able to return to Rome, he took his old office again and was consultant to the Congregation of Rites in 1815. Shortly before the death of Pius VII, he was General Auditor of the Apostolic Chamber.

Pope Leo XII. took him on 3 May 1824, Cardinal Priest of San Pancrazio in the College of Cardinals on Bussi and appointed on the same day as archbishop of Benevento. He received his episcopal consecration three weeks later Camerlengo Bartolomeo Pacca. Cardinal Bussi participated in the conclaves of 1829 and 1830 to 1831. Thirteen years after the election of Gregory XVI. he died two days after his 89th birthday. At this time he was the oldest cardinal of the world.