Pompeo Aldrovandi

Pompeo Aldrovandi ( born September 23, 1668 Bologna, † January 6, 1752 in Montefiascone ) was an Italian cardinal and bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

The son of Count Ercole from a patrician family, began his studies at the Collegio Romano in Rome, put them in Siena at the Collegio Tolomei continued to eventually study law at the University of Bologna, which he left in 1691 with a doctorate Doctor iuris utriusque. Five years later he went as a protégé of Pope Innocent XII. to the Roman Curia and first employee of the Apostolic Signatura was. He then rose steadily up the career ladder, and on October 5, 1710 he was ordained a priest. As Chargé d'affaires of the Nunciature in Spain from 1712 to 1716, he sometimes took the nuncio.

On October 5, 1716, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Neocesarea in pontoon. He received his episcopal consecration on 11 October of the same year, the Cardinal Secretary of State Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci. 1717 and 1718, he acted as nuncio in Spain, the interests of the Holy See. But the political problems between the Holy See and the King of Spain forced him to return to Bologna, where he. Until the death of Clement XI remained. On March 23, 1729, he was appointed Titularpatriarch of Jerusalem and managed as governor of the Eternal City and attended as vice - chamberlain of 30 September 1733 to 24 March 1734 to the papal finances.

On March 24, 1734 it took Clement XII. as cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Eusebio in the College of Cardinals. In 1734 he was appointed archbishop of the diocese Montefiascone and participated in the conclave in 1740, in which the elections for forty days brought no result, because many cardinals voted for him, even though they were not in a position to choose his favor to decide. Ultimately, Cardinal Lambertini was Pope Benedict XIV. Aldrovandi was in the years 1740-1743 Datar His Holiness.

He died on January 6, 1752 at the age of 83 years in Montefiascone. He was buried erected in the church of San Petronio in Bologna, where he had a chapel, and he left a portion of its assets.