Vincenzo Macchi

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Field	Value
type	Cardinal
honorific_prefix	His Eminence
name	Vincenzo Macchi
title	Dean of the College of Cardinals
image	Cardinale Vincenzo Macchi.jpg
caption	Portrait.
church	Roman Catholic Church
appointed	11 June 1847
term_end	30 September 1860
predecessor	Ludovico Micara
successor	Mario Mattei
other_post
ordination	20 September 1794
consecration	4 October 1818
consecrated_by	Lorenzo Litta
cardinal	2 October 1826
created_cardinal_by	Pope Leo XII
rank	Cardinal-Priest (1827–40)
Cardinal-Bishop (1840–60)
birth_name	Vincenzo Macchi
birth_date	30 August 1770
birth_place	Capo di Monte, Montefiascone, Papal States
death_date
death_place	Rome, Papal States
buried	Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio
parents	Giovan Nicola Macchi
Maria Anna Gilda Vagni
previous_post
alma_mater	La Sapienza University
coat_of_arms	[[File:Vincenzo Macchi-CoA.svg
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| type = Cardinal | honorific_prefix = His Eminence | name = Vincenzo Macchi | title = Dean of the College of Cardinals | image = Cardinale Vincenzo Macchi.jpg | caption = Portrait. | church = Roman Catholic Church | appointed = 11 June 1847 | term_end = 30 September 1860 | predecessor = Ludovico Micara | successor = Mario Mattei | other_post = | ordination = 20 September 1794 | consecration = 4 October 1818 | consecrated_by = Lorenzo Litta | cardinal = 2 October 1826 | created_cardinal_by = Pope Leo XII | rank = Cardinal-Priest (1827–40) Cardinal-Bishop (1840–60) | birth_name = Vincenzo Macchi | birth_date = 30 August 1770 | birth_place = Capo di Monte, Montefiascone, Papal States | death_date = | death_place = Rome, Papal States | buried = Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio | parents = Giovan Nicola Macchi Maria Anna Gilda Vagni | previous_post = | alma_mater = La Sapienza University |coat_of_arms = [[File:Vincenzo Macchi-CoA.svg|140px]]

Vincenzo Macchi (30 August 1770 – 30 September 1860) was an Italian Cardinal.

Career

Born on 30 August 1770 in Capodimonte in the Papal States, he studied in Montefiascone and in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1794. In 1801 he gained his doctorate in utroque iure and was posted to the papal Nunciature in Lisbon, where he was active in the years 1801-1816, the years in which Wellington was organizing and leading the Peninsular Campaign. In 1818 he was appointed Archbishop of Nisibi in partibus and from late 1818 to October 1819 was in Lucerne as Nuncio to the Swiss Confederation. In the years 1819-1826 he was Nuncio in Paris, and was made Cardinal by Pope Leo XII in the consistory of 2 October 1826. In the years 1828-1830 he was Legate in Ravenna and Forlì and in 1836-1841 Legate in Bologna. Although considered a candidate in the Papal conclave of 1830-1, his backing was insufficient, despite the support of Giuseppe Albani. He never received more than twelve votes.

Subsequently, Macchi occupied various suburbicarian sees: as Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina in 1840, as Cardinal Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1844, and, as Dean of the College of Cardinals, was also Cardinal Bishop of Ostia from 1847. He likewise occupied in the last three decades of his life various posts in the Roman Curia.

He died in Rome on 30 September 1860, aged 90. His tomb is in the Roman Basilica of Ss. John and Paul, on the Coelian Hill, at the time of his death he was the last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope Leo XII.

References

Sources

• Philippe Boutry, Souverain et Pontife: recherches prosopographiques sur la curie romaine à l'âge de la restauration, 1814-1846, Ecole française de Rome, Rome, 2002, pp. 409–410.
• Giuseppe De Marchi, Le nunziature apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956, Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, Roma, 1957, pp. 125–126, 211 and 244;
• Urban Fink, Die Luzerner Nuntiatur 1586-1873: Zur Behördengeschichte und Quellenkunde der päpstlichen Diplomatie in der Schweiz, Rex Verlag, Luzern & Stuttgart 1997 (Collectanea Archivi Vaticani 40; Luzerner Historische Veröffentlichungen 32), pp. 186 and 196-197.
• C. Weber, Kardinäle und Prälaten in den letzten Jahrzehnten des Kirchenstaates, 1978, pp. 477–478.

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