Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal)

Alessandro Crescenzi
Cardinal Priest of Santa Prisca
Church	Catholic Church
In office	1675–1688
Predecessor	Carlo Pio di Savoia
Successor	Marcello Durazzo
Orders
Consecration	26 Jul 1643 by Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore)
Created Cardinal	27 May 1675
Rank	Cardinal Priest
Personal details
Born	1607 Rome, Italy
Died	8 May 1688 (age 81) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Previous post	Bishop of Termoli (1643–1644) Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli (1644–1652) Bishop of Bitonto (1652–1668) Titular Patriarch of Alexandria (1671–1676) Archbishop (Personal Title) of Recanati e Loreto (1676–1682) Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1685–1688)

Alessandro Crescenzi, C.R.S. (1607 – 8 May, 1688) was a Roman Catholic cardinal who served as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals (1685–1688), Archbishop (Personal Title) of Recanati e Loreto (1676–1682), Titular Patriarch of Alexandria (1671–1676), Bishop of Bitonto (1652–1668), Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli (1644–1652), and Bishop of Termoli (1643–1644).^[1][2]

Biography

Alessandro Agostino Crescenzi was born in Rome, Italy in 1607, the son of Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Anna Massimi.^[1] He is related to Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi (named 1542) and is the nephew of Cardinal Pier Paolo Crescenzi (named 1611).^[1] He was ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha.^[1][2] On 13 Jul 1643, he was elected during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Termoli.^[1][2] On 26 Jul 1643, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore),^[1] Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Eustachio.^[2] On 13 Jun 1644, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli.^[1][2] On 26 Aug 1652, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Bitonto.^[1][2] He was named nuncio in Savoy by Pope Innocent X where he served until 1658.^[1] On 14 May 1668, he resigned as Bishop of Bitonto.^[1][2] On 23 Dec 1670, he was named Prefect of the Cubiculi of His Holiness.^[1] On 19 Jan 1671, he was promoted by Pope Clement X as Titular Patriarch of Alexandria.^[1][2] On 27 May 1675, he was installed as Cardinal Priest of Santa Prisca in the consistory of 1675.^[1][2] On 24 Feb 1676, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement X as Bishop of Recanati e Loreto where he served until his resignation on 9 Jan 1682.^[1][2] As cardinal, he participated in the conclave of 1676 which elected Pope Innocent XI.^[1] On 9 Apr 1685, he was named camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.^[1] He died on 8 May 1688 in Rome and is buried in the church of S. Maria in Vallicella in the same city.^[1]

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:^[2]

• Andrea Bonito, Bishop of Capaccio (1677);
• Vitus Piluzzi, Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis (1678);
• Stephanus Cosimi, Archbishop of Split (1678);
• Bernardino Belluzzi, Bishop of Montefeltro (1678);
• Francesco Scannagatta, Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (1679);
• Carlo Berlingeri, Archbishop of Santa Severina (1679);
• Francesco Megale, Bishop of Isola (1679);
• Giacomo Villani, Bishop of Caiazzo (1679);
• Giovanni Battista Nepita, Bishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia (1680);
• Tommaso Guzzoni, Bishop of Sora (1681);
• Andrea Brancaccio, Bishop of Conversano (1681);
• Sebastien Knab, Archbishop of Nakhchivan (1682);
• Giovanni Battista Giberti, Bishop of Cava de' Tirreni (1683);
• Giuseppe Felice Barlacci, Bishop of Narni (1683);
• Bernardin Marchese, Bishop of Sarsina (1683);
• Stefano Ghirardelli, Bishop of Alatri (1683);
• Agostino Fieschi, Bishop of Accia and Mariana (1683);
• Giambattista Quaranta, Bishop of Larino (1683);
• Francesco Antonio Leopardi, Bishop of Marsico Nuovo (1683);
• Domenico Menna, Bishop of Minori (1683);
• Vincenzo Maria Durazzo, Bishop of Savona (1683);
• Ferdinando de Rojas (Roxas), Bishop of Vigevano (1683);
• Francesco Maria Moles, Bishop of Nola (1684);
• Annibale de Pietropaulo, Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (1684);
• Horatius Ondedei, Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado (1684);
• Giovanni Battista de Belli, Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita (1684);
• Fulvio Crivelli (Cribelli), Bishop of Tricarico (1684);
• Antonio Polcenigo, Bishop of Feltre (1684);
• Domenico Minio, Bishop of Caorle (1684);
• Giambattista Rubini, Bishop of Vicenza (1684);
• Giovanni Battista De Pace, Bishop of Capaccio (1684);
• Giovanni Battista Sanudo, Bishop of Treviso (1684);
• Pier Giulio Delfino, Bishop of Capodistria (1684);
• Nicolaus Gabrieli, Bishop of Novigrad (1684);
• Joannes Cuppari, Bishop of Trogir (1684);
• Stefano David, Bishop of Krk (1684);
• Giambattista Morea, Bishop of Lacedonia (1684);
• Pietro Luigi Malaspina, Bishop of Cortona (1684);
• Giovanni Riccanale, Bishop of Boiano (1684);
• Girolamo Compagnone, Archbishop of Rossano (1685);
• Angelo Cerasi, Bishop of Bovino (1685);
• Giovanni Battista Antici, Bishop of Amelia (1685);
• Pietro Valentini, Bishop of Sovana (1685);
• Emiddio Lenti, Bishop of Nocera de' Pagani (1685);
• Domenico Valvassori, Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1686);
• François Genet, Bishop of Vaison (1686);
• Paolo Naldini (bishop), Bishop of Capodistria (1686);
• Muzio Dandini, Bishop of Senigallia (1686);
• Filippo Tani, Bishop of Città Ducale (1686);
• Giulio Giacomo Castellani, Bishop of Cagli (1686);
• Baldassare de Benavente, Bishop of Potenza (1686);
• Filippo Massarenghi, Bishop of Bitonto (1686);

and the principal co-consecrator of:^[2]

• Camillo Astalli-Pamphilj, Bishop of Catania (1661);
• Antonio Bottis, Bishop of Minori (1670);
• Giuseppe Labonia, Bishop of Montemarano (1670);
• Mario Alberizzi, Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1671);
• Pompeius Varese, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (1671);
• Domenico Massimo, Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone (1671);
• Fabrizio Spada, Titular Archbishop of Patrae (1672);
• Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt, Bishop of Wrocław (1673);
• Simon Gaudenti, Bishop of Ossero (1673);
• Andrea Francolisio (d'Aquino), Bishop of Tricarico (1673); and
• Giuseppe di Giacomo, Bishop of Bovino (1673).

References

1. Miranda, Salvador. "CRESCENZI, C.R.S., Alessandro (1607-1688)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
2. "Alessandro Cardinal Crescenzi, C.R.S. " Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 9, 2016