Alessandro Agostino Crescenzi, C.R.S. (1607 – 8 May 1688) was a Roman Catholic cardinal who served as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1685–1688), Archbishop (Personal Title) of Recanati e Loreto (1676–1682), Titular Patriarch of Alexandria (1671–1676), Bishop of Bitonto (1652–1668), Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli (1644–1652), and Bishop of Termoli (1643–1644).[1][2]
Biography
Alessandro Agostino Crescenzi was born in Rome in 1607, the son of Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Anna Massimi.[1] He is related to Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi (named 1542) and is the nephew of Cardinal Pier Paolo Crescenzi (named 1611).[1] He was ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha.[1][2]
On 13 July 1643, he was appointed Bishop of Termoli by Pope Urban VIII.[1][2] In Rome, on 26 July 1643, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore),[1] Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Eustachio.[2]
On 13 June 1644, he was appointed Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli by Pope Urban VIII.[1][2]
On 26 August 1652, he was appointed Bishop of Bitonto by Pope Innocent X.[1][2] Pope Innocent X appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Savoy (Turin), where he served until 1658.[1]
On 14 May 1668, he resigned as Bishop of Bitonto.[1][2] On 23 December 1670, he was named Prefect of the Cubiculi of His Holiness (Maestro di Camera) by Pope Clement X.[3][1] On 19 January 1671, he was promoted by Pope Clement X to the titular post of Titular Patriarch of Alexandria.[1][2] On 27 May 1675, he was installed as Cardinal Priest of Santa Prisca in the consistory of 1675.[1][2]
On 24 February 1676, he was appointed Bishop of Recanati e Loreto by Pope Clement X, where he served until his resignation on 9 January 1682.[1][2] As cardinal, he participated in the conclave of 1676 which elected Pope Innocent XI.[1] On 9 April 1685, he was named camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.[1]
He died in Rome on 8 May 1688, and was buried in the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella.[1]
Episcopal succession
| Episcopal succession of Alessandro Crescenzi |
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| While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[2] Andrea Bonito, Bishop of Capaccio (1677);; Vitus Piluzzi, Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis (1678);; Stephanus Cosimi, Archbishop of Split (1678);; Bernardino Belluzzi, Bishop of Montefeltro (1678);; Francesco Scannagatta, Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (1679);; Carlo Berlingeri, Archbishop of Santa Severina (1679);; Francesco Megale, Bishop of Isola (1679);; Giacomo Villani, Bishop of Caiazzo (1679);; Giovanni Battista Nepita, Bishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia (1680);; Tommaso Guzzoni, Bishop of Sora (1681);; Andrea Brancaccio, Bishop of Conversano (1681);; Sebastien Knab, Archbishop of Nakhchivan (1682);; Giovanni Battista Giberti, Bishop of Cava de' Tirreni (1683);; Giuseppe Felice Barlacci, Bishop of Narni (1683);; Bernardin Marchese, Bishop of Sarsina (1683);; Stefano Ghirardelli, Bishop of Alatri (1683);; Agostino Fieschi, Bishop of Accia and Mariana (1683);; Giambattista Quaranta, Bishop of Larino (1683);; Francesco Antonio Leopardi, Bishop of Marsico Nuovo (1683);; Domenico Menna, Bishop of Minori (1683);; Vincenzo Maria Durazzo, Bishop of Savona (1683);; Ferdinando de Rojas (Roxas), Bishop of Vigevano (1683);; Francesco Maria Moles, Bishop of Nola (1684);; Annibale de Pietropaulo, Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (1684);; Horatius Ondedei, Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado (1684);; Giovanni Battista de Belli, Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita (1684);; Fulvio Crivelli (Cribelli), Bishop of Tricarico (1684);; Antonio Polcenigo, Bishop of Feltre (1684);; Domenico Minio, Bishop of Caorle (1684);; Giambattista Rubini, Bishop of Vicenza (1684);; Giovanni Battista De Pace, Bishop of Capaccio (1684);; Giovanni Battista Sanudo, Bishop of Treviso (1684);; Pier Giulio Delfino, Bishop of Capodistria (1684);; Nicolaus Gabrieli, Bishop of Novigrad (1684);; Joannes Cuppari, Bishop of Trogir (1684);; Stefano David, Bishop of Krk (1684);; Giambattista Morea, Bishop of Lacedonia (1684);; Pietro Luigi Malaspina, Bishop of Cortona (1684);; Giovanni Riccanale, Bishop of Boiano (1684);; Girolamo Compagnone, Archbishop of Rossano (1685);; Angelo Cerasi, Bishop of Bovino (1685);; Giovanni Battista Antici, Bishop of Amelia (1685);; Pietro Valentini, Bishop of Sovana (1685);; Emiddio Lenti, Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani (1685);; Domenico Valvassori, Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1686);; François Genet, Bishop of Vaison (1686);; Paolo Naldini (bishop), Bishop of Capodistria (1686);; Muzio Dandini, Bishop of Senigallia (1686);; Filippo Tani, Bishop of Città Ducale (1686);; Giulio Giacomo Castellani, Bishop of Cagli (1686);; Baldassare de Benavente, Bishop of Potenza (1686);; Filippo Massarenghi, Bishop of Bitonto (1686); and the principal co-consecrator of:[2] Camillo Astalli-Pamphilj, Bishop of Catania (1661);; Antonio Bottis, Bishop of Minori (1670);; Giuseppe Labonia, Bishop of Montemarano (1670);; Mario Alberizzi, Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1671);; Pompeo Varese, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (1671);; Domenico Massimo, Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone (1671);; Fabrizio Spada, Titular Archbishop of Patrae (1672);; Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt, Bishop of Wrocław (1673);; Simon Gaudenti, Bishop of Ossero (1673);; Andrea Francolisio d'Aquino, Bishop of Tricarico (1673); and; Giuseppe di Giacomo, Bishop of Bovino (1673). |
References
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