Pope Innocent XIII

. Innocent XIII, born Michelangelo Conti di Poli ( born May 13, 1655 in Poli at Palestrina ( Church State); † March 7, 1724 in Rome) was Pope from 1721 to 1724. He came from the family of Conti, who is also the significant Pope Innocent III. belonged, hence the choice of name.

Life

The Roman nobleman Michelangelo Conti studied in Ancona and Rome at the Gregorian. Pope Alexander VIII appointed him papal chamberlain honor. Under Pope Innocent XII. He was a member of the Roman Prelature.

In 1695 he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Tarsus. He then went as papal nuncio to Lucerne. In 1698 he was papal nuncio in Lisbon, on May 17, 1706 appointed him as Pope Clement XI. cardinal.

In 1709, he became the resident Bishop of Osimo, and from 1712 to 1719 he was also bishop of Viterbo. On May 8, 1721, he was elected in a previously very eventful conclave unanimously elected pope after the favorite Fabrizio Paolucci, the Cardinal Secretary of State of its predecessor, Clement XI. , Been excluded by imperial veto of the election was (see Rampolla ). On June 16, 1721 he got his brother Bernardo Maria Conti cardinal.

On June 9, 1722 he enfeoffed the Emperor Charles VI. with the two kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, in 1723 he raised the bishopric to an archbishopric Vienna. The Jesuits he faced always hostile and demanded of them the full recognition of the papal decrees, especially in the Rites Controversy. The Jansenists, but hoped in vain for a papal partisanship for them.