Ulderico Carpegna

Ulderico Carpegna (24 June 1595 – 24 January 1679) was an Italian jurist and Cardinal.

His Eminence

Ulderico Carpegna
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
PredecessorFrancesco Maria Brancaccio
SuccessorCesare Facchinetti
Orders
Consecration7 October 1630
by Luigi Caetani
Created cardinal28 November 1633
RankCardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born24 June 1595
Scavolino, Italy
Died24 January 1679 (age 83)
NationalityItalian
DenominationRoman Catholic

Biography

Born at Scavolino, he was from a family of the Roman nobility, connected with the Montefeltro family.[1]

He became bishop of Gubbio[2] in 1630, and cardinal in 1633.[3] He was bishop of Todi from 1638, resigning by 1643. He was Camerlengo for a year from 1648. Consecrated by Luigi Caetani, he became bishop of Albano in 1666, bishop of Frascati in 1671, and bishop of Porto and Santa-Rufina in 1675.[3] He died in Rome. Through his episcopal consecration of Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, he is part of the episcopal lineage of Pope Francis. He is also connected to the lineage of Pope Benedict XVI.

Cardinal Carpegna was a patron of Francesco Borromini and commissioned the Baroque architect important works of transformation and expansion of his palace at Fontana di Trevi. As a token of gratitude, Borromini named the prelate executor of his will and bequeathed him money and objects of considerable value "for", as he wrote, "the infinite debt I have toward him".[4]

The Fondo Carpegna of the Vatican Secret Archives contains material relating to Ulderico Carpegna and Gaspare Carpegna.[1]

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[2]

and the principal co-consecrator of

References
  1. Accademia nazionale di San Luca (2000). Il palazzo di Carpegna a Roma. De Luca. pp. 101–9. ISBN 978-88-8016-413-5. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  2. "Ulderico Carpegna" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017
  3. Moroni, Gaetano (1841). Dizionario Di Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica Da S. Pietro Sino Ai Nostri Giorni (etc.) (in Italian). Dalla Tipografia Emiliana. p. 101. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  4. Salvagni, Isabella. Palazzo Carpegna, 1577-1934. Rome: Edizioni De Luca, 2000, 230 pp., 117 ill., 70 in color
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