Giovanni Andrea Archetti
{{Short description|Italian cardinal}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Cardinal
| honorific_prefix = His Eminence
| name = Giovanni Andrea Archetti
| image = Giovanni Andrea Archetti.jpg
| church = Catholic Church
| diocese = Sabina
| title = Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
| term_start = 2 April 1800
| term_end = 5 November 1805
| created_cardinal_by = Pius VI
| cardinal = 20 September 1784
| predecessor = Giovanni Archinto
| successor = Ippolito Antonio Vincenti Mareri
| other_post = Bishop of Ascoli Piceno
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1731|9|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Brescia, Republic of Venice
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1805|11|5|1731|9|11|df=y}}
| death_place = Ascoli, Papal States
| previous_post = Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio
(1784{{nbnd}}1800)
}}
Giovanni Andrea Archetti (11 September 1731 – 5 November 1805) was an Italian cardinal.
Biography
Born in Brescia, Lombardy, Archetti studied canon and civil law in La Sapienza University of Rome. He was ordained priest on 10 September 1775, elected titular archbishop of Chalcedon (Calcedonia) on the next day, and named Apostolic nuncio in Poland on September 18, 1775. He was instrumental{{Weasel inline|date=April 2019}} in the failure of the Zamoyski Code.{{Explain|date=April 2019}}
Archetti was made cardinal priest in the consistory of 20 September 1784 by Pope Pius VI, with the title of Sant'Eusebio and appointed apostolic legate in Bologna the following year. He was transferred to the see of Ascoli Piceno with personal title of archbishop on 1 June 1795. He took part in the Papal conclave of 1799/1800 in Venice. On 2 April 1800 he was named cardinal bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Sabina, retaining the see of Ascoli Piceno.
He died in 1805 in Ascoli.
References
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Books and articles
- {{cite book|author1=Archetti, Giovanni Andrea |author2=Ivan Sergejevič Gagarin|title=Un monce du pape à la cour de Catherine II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ct5dAAAAcAAJ|year=1872|publisher=V. Palmè|location=Paris|language=French}}
External links
- [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1784.htm#Archetti The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church-The Biographical Dictionary]
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/barche.html Catholic Hierarchy data for this cardinal] Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources
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Category:Religious leaders from Brescia
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Category:Apostolic nuncios to Poland
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