Carlos de Borja y Centellas
{{Short description|Spanish cardinal}}
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| appointed = 3 October 1708
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| ended = 8 August 1733
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| predecessor = Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán
| successor = Álvaro Eugenio de Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor
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| other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana (1721–33)
| previous_post = Titular Archbishop of Trapezus (1705–21)
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| consecration = 30 November 1705
| consecrated_by = Francesco Acquaviva
| cardinal = 30 September 1720
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| created_cardinal_by = Pope Clement XI
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| birth_date = 29 April 1663
| birth_place = Gandia, Spain
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| death_date = 8 August 1733 (aged 70)
| death_place = Real Sitio de San Ildefonso, Spain
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| alma_mater = Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso
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Carlos de Borja Centellas y Ponce de León (29 April 1663 – 8 August 1733) was a Spanish cardinal. He served as Patriarch of the West Indies[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop//bborja.html Catholic-Hierarchy]: Carlos Cardinal Borja Centellas y Ponce de León and as the first Vicar-General of the Spanish armies.
Life
He was a younger son of Francisco Carlos de Borja y Centellas, 9th Duke of Gandía, and his wife María Ponce de León. Destined for career as an ecclesiastic from a young age, he studied at the Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso of the University of Alcalá between 1669 and 1670. There he obtained a doctorate in both canon and civil law.{{Cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of September 30, 1720 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1720.htm#Borja |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=cardinals.fiu.edu}}
In his early career, he was named a canon of Toledo and was archdeacon of Madrid. He was also made vice-almoner major to Carlos II, and acquired several benefices. He accompanied the King to Barcelona and Italy in 1701, and was appointed the first Vicar-General of the Spanish armies in 1702. On 20 July 1705, he was appointed titular archbishop of Trapezus.
He was ordained to the episcopate on 30 November 1705 at the convent of the Incarnation in Madrid. The principal consecrator was Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona, and the principal co-consecrators were Francisco Solís Hervás and Julián Cano y Tevar. The ceremony was attended by the king, queen and the entire court. He was made Patriarch of the West Indies in 1708, and baptised Infante Felipe in 1709 and another Infante Felipe in 1720.
He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1720, after receiving the recommendation of King Philip V.Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ObtDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52 vol. 6, p. 52] {{in lang|it}} He was installed as cardinal-priest of Santa Pudenziana in 1721. He participated in the papal conclave of 1724 which elected Pope Benedict XIII.
He had a brother, Francisco, who was also a cardinal.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232128/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1720.htm Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of September 30, 1720]
- [https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/cardinal-borja/bc24449b-4e50-4849-8bfd-3b30795c0227 Cardinal Borja by Andrea Procaccini]
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