Luigi Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga †

Deceased

Librarian of the Vatican Library

Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Oct 1725		Born
24 Jun 1764	38.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon
29 Jun 1764	38.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
9 Jul 1764	38.7	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
25 Jul 1764	38.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
18 Aug 1764	38.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
28 Aug 1773	47.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain
Nov 1773³	48.0	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
15 Apr 1776	50.5	Elevated to Cardinal	In Pectore
20 May 1776	50.5	Elevated to Cardinal
Jan 1778	52.2	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain
30 Mar 1778	52.4	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
1788²	62.2	Appointed	Prefect to Other
29 Nov 1790	65.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
1793²	67.2	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation of Ecclesiastical Immunity
1 Jun 1795	69.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Dec 1800³	75.1	Resigned	Prefect of the Congregation of Ecclesiastical Immunity
12 Jan 1802	76.2	Appointed	Librarian of the Vatican Library
3 Aug 1807	81.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
29 Dec 1808	83.2	Died	Librarian of the Vatican Library

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain ; ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Luigi Valenti Gonzaga
(VIAF: 89090298; WikiData: Q774993)
Luigi Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga (born 15 Oct 1725, died 29 Dec 1808) Librarian of Vatican Library

Consistory - April 1776: Created Cardinal (In Pectore)
Consistory - May 1776: Published (Previously a Cardinal In Pectore)
Conclave - 1799/1800: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Roveredo, Italy
Ordained Bishop Pauline chapel, Qurinale palace, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) S. Luigi Gonzaga Chapel, S. Apollinare, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 44.5 years
a bishop for 44.4 years
a cardinal for 32.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Clement XIII
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini †
Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon
Archbishop Giovanni Carlo Boschi †
Titular Archbishop of Athenae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Carlo Cardinal Livizzani Forni † (1794)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Antonio Rossi † (1785)
Bishop Giovanni Martino Bernardoni Baccolo † (1789)
Archbishop Filippo Sardi † (1789)
Bishop Giovanni Andrea Avogadro, S.J. † (1790)
Archbishop Francesco Paolo Perremuto, O.S.B. † (1790)
Bishop Giovanni Pietro Galzigna † (1790)
Bishop Omobono Offredi † (1791)
Bishop Paolo Maggiolo † (1791)
Archbishop Ambrogio (Paulo Maria Michael) Mirelli, O.S.B. † (1792)
Archbishop Gennaro Maria Guevara Suardo, O.S.B. † (1792)
Bishop Giovanni Arcamone, C.R. † (1792)
Bishop Antonio Siciliani, C.R.L. † (1792)
Bishop Carmine Fimiani † (1792)
Archbishop Silvestro (Jean Baptiste) Miccù, O.F.M. Obs. † (1792)
Archbishop Fortunado Pinto † (1792)
Archbishop Raffaele Mormile, C.R. † (1792)
Archbishop Vincenzo Maria Morelli, C.R. † (1792)
Bishop Nicola Vecchi † (1792)
Bishop Francesco Saverio Gualtieri † (1792)
Bishop Antonio Cresi † (1792)
Bishop Raffaele Pasca, O.S.B. † (1792)
Bishop Donato de’ Liguori † (1792)
Bishop Bernardo Maria della Torre † (1792)
Bishop Ludovico Ludovici (Ludovico), O.F.M. Obs. † (1792)
Bishop Ivan Antun Sintić † (1792)
Bishop Orazio della Torre † (1792)
Giovanni Filippo Cardinal Gallarati Scotti † (1793)
Bishop Carlo Rovelli, O.P. † (1793)
Bishop Pasquale Petruccelli † (1793)
Lorenzo Cardinal Litta † (1793)
Bishop Mihajlo Mate Spalatin † (1794)
Bishop Carlo Belloni † (1794)
Bishop Francesco Toli † (1795)
Archbishop Camillo Campanelli † (1796)
Bishop Agostino Colaianni † (1797)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Roveredo, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Pauline chapel, Qurinale palace, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	S. Luigi Gonzaga Chapel, S. Apollinare, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

b/c2: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 15 Apr 1776
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1764, Number 25
nunc: Les Nonciatures Apostoliques Permanentes (Karttunen), Page 266

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