Giovanni Andrea Archetti

Giovanni Andrea Archetti (11 September 1731 – 5 November 1805) was an Italian cardinal.

His Eminence Giovanni Andrea Archetti
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Sabina
Installed	2 April 1800
Term ended	5 November 1805
Predecessor	Giovanni Archinto
Successor	Ippolito Antonio Vincenti Mareri
Other post(s)	Bishop of Ascoli Piceno
Previous post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio (1784‍–‍1800)
Orders
Created cardinal	20 September 1784 by Pius VI
Personal details
Born	(1731-09-11)11 September 1731 Brescia, Republic of Venice
Died	5 November 1805(1805-11-05) (aged 74) Ascoli, Papal States

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 in the failure of the Zamoyski Code.

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.

Books and articles

• Archetti, Giovanni Andrea; Ivan Sergejevič Gagarin (1872). Un monce du pape à la cour de Catherine II (in French). Paris: V. Palmè.

External links

• The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church-The Biographical Dictionary
• Catholic Hierarchy data for this cardinal ^{[self-published]}