Nicola Guidi di Bagno
Nicola Guidi di Bagno | |
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Cardinal priest of Sant'Eusebio; Archbishop-Bishop of Senigallia | |
See | Senigallia Titular Archbishop of Athens |
Installed | May 28, 1658— resigned September 1, 1659 |
Predecessor | Francesco Cherubini |
Successor | |
Other post(s) | Apostolic Nuncio to France (1644–1656) |
Orders | |
Consecration | by Antonio Marcello Barberini |
Created cardinal | April 9, 1657 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1583 Mantua, Italy |
Died | August 27, 1663 at age of 80 Rome |
Nicola Guidi di Bagno or Nicolò Guidi di Bagno (Mantua, Italy, 1583) was a titular archbishop of Atenia, bishop of Senigallia, and a cardinal. He descended from a noble family. His brother Gianfrancesco Guidi di Bagno and his uncle Girolamo Colonna were also cardinals.
Early life and studies[]
He was the son of Fabrizio Guidi di Bagno, Marquess of Montebello, Province of Rimini, and Laura Colonna from the Duchy of Zagarolo.
He studied physics, then married. After joining the papal army, he was named general of the papal troops in Marca d'Ancona and held the post for seven years. After his wife died, he left the military life to enter the ecclesiastical state. Late he became nuncio to Tuscany.
Episcopate[]
He was appointed titular archbishop of Athens on March 15, 1644. He was consecrated a bishop in Rome on 29 March 1644 by Cardinal Antonio Barberini.[1]
He was named Apostolic Nuncio to France on 23 April 1644, where he served until December 1656.[2]
Cardinalate[]
Nicola Guidi di Bagno was created cardinal priest in the consistory of April 9, 1657 by Pope Alexander VII and was assigned the title of Sant'Eusebio. On May 28, 1658, he was transferred to the Diocese of Senigallia, but he resigned from that bishopric on September 1, 1659.
Cardinal Guidi died on August 27, 1663 in Rome.
Notes and references[]
- ^ Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica. Tomus IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana., p. 99.
- ^ Gauchat, p. 99, note 4. Cf. Henry Biaudet, Les nonciatures apostoliques permanents, jusqu'en 1648, (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedakatemia 1910), pp. 239, 269 (June 25, 1643 until 1652).
External links[]
- Miranda, Salvador. "GUIDI DI BAGNO, Nicolò (1583-1663)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. OCLC 53276621.
- Cheney, David M. "Nicolò Cardinal Guidi di Bagno". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved May 22, 2020. [self-published]
- 1583 births
- 1663 deaths
- Clergy from Mantua
- 16th-century Italian cardinals
- Cardinals created by Pope Alexander VII
- Apostolic Nuncios to France