Cardinals Created by Pius VII (1816)

Consistory of 1816.03.08 (31)

Italy1. Cardinal Annibale della Genga (later Pope Leo XII)

former Supreme Pontiff

Born:1760.08.02 (Genga, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1783.06.14
Consecrated Bishop:1794.02.24
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Elected as Supreme Pontiff:1823.09.28
Installed as Supreme Pontiff:1823.10.05
Died:1829.02.10 (Roma, Italy † 68)

Titular Archbishop of Tyrus (1794.02.21 – 1816.03.08)

Apostolic Nuncio to Cologne (1794.03.14 – 1800)

Archbishop-Bishop of Senigallia (Italy) (1816.03.08 – 1816.09.18)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere (1816.04.29 – 1823.09.28)

Vicar General for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy) (1820.05.12 – 1823.09.28)

Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major (1821.02.10 – 1823.09.28)

Supreme Pontiff (1823.09.28 [1823.10.05] – 1829.02.10)

Italy2. Cardinal Pietro Gravina

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Panisperna
former Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy)

Born:1749.12.16 (Montevago, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1792.04.07
Consecrated Bishop:1794.09.14
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1830.12.06 (Palermo, Italy † 80)

Titular Archbishop of Nicæa (1794.09.12 – 1816.03.08)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy) (1816.09.23 – 1830.12.06)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Panisperna (1817.11.15 – 1830.12.06)

Italy3. Cardinal Domenico Spinucci

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Callisto
former Metropolitan Archbishop of Benevento (Italy)

Born:1739.03.02 (Fermo, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1763.03.19
Consecrated Bishop:1775.04.17
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1823.12.21 (Benevento, Italy † 84)

Titular Bishop of Targa (1775.04.03 – 1777.05.12)

Bishop of Macerata (Italy) (1777.05.12 – 1796.06.27)

Bishop of Tolentino (Italy) (1777.05.12 – 1796.06.27)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Benevento (Italy) (1796.06.27 – 1823.12.21)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Callisto (1816.04.29 – 1823.12.21)

Italy4. Cardinal Lorenzo Caleppi

former Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal

Born:1741.04.29 (Cervia, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1772.05.01
Consecrated Bishop:1801.11.15
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1817.01.10 (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil † 75)

Titular Archbishop of Nisibis (1801.02.23 – 1816.03.08)

Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal (1801.12.23 – 1817.01.10)

Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned (1816.03.08 – 1817.01.10)

Italy5. Cardinal Antonio Gabriele Severoli

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace
former Archbishop-Bishop of Viterbo (Italy)
former Archbishop-Bishop of Tuscanella (Italy)
former Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera

Born:1757.02.28 (Faenza, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1779.12.18
Consecrated Bishop:1787.05.13
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1824.09.08 (Roma, Italy † 67)

Bishop of Fano (Italy) (1787.04.23 – 1801.09.28)

Titular Archbishop of Petra (1801.09.28 – 1808.01.11)

Apostolic Nuncio to Austria-Hungary (1801.10 – 1816.03.08)

Archbishop-Bishop of Tuscanella (Italy) (1808.01.11 – 1824.09.08)

Archbishop-Bishop of Viterbo (Italy) (1808.01.11 – 1824.09.08)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace (1817.10.01 – 1824.09.08)

Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera (1823 – 1824.09.08)

Italy6. Cardinal Giuseppe Morozzo della Rocca

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria degli Angeli
former Archbishop-Bishop of Novara (Italy)

Born:1758.03.12 (Torino, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1802.03.14
Consecrated Bishop:1802.04.04
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1842.03.22 (Novara, Italy † 84)

Titular Archbishop of Thebæ (1802.03.29 – 1816.03.08)

Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars (1807.12.02 – 1816.03.11)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria degli Angeli (1816.04.29 – 1842.03.22)

Archbishop-Bishop of Novara (Italy) (1817.10.01 – 1842.03.22)

Italy7. Cardinal Tommaso Arezzo

former Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
former Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso in commendum
former Vice-Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery

Born:1756.12.16 (Orbetello, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1779.03.19
Consecrated Bishop:1802.04.04
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1833.02.03 (Roma, Italy † 76)

Titular Archbishop of Seleucia Trachea (1802.03.29 – 1816.03.08)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli (1816.04.29 – 1820.05.29)

Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina (1820.05.29 – 1833.02.03)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso in commendum (1830.07.05 – 1833.02.03)

Vice-Chancellor of Apostolic Chancery (1830.07.05 – 1833.02.03)

Italy8. Cardinal Francesco Saverio Castiglioni (later Pope Pius VIII)

former Supreme Pontiff

Born:1761.11.20 (Cingoli, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1785.12.17
Consecrated Bishop:1800.08.17
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Elected as Supreme Pontiff:1829.03.31
Installed as Supreme Pontiff:1829.04.05
Died:1830.11.30 (Roma, Italy † 69)

Bishop of Montalto (Italy) (1800.08.11 – 1816.03.08)

Bishop of Cesena (Italy) (1816.03.08 – 1821.08.04)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Traspontina (1816.04.29 – 1821.08.13)

Major Penitentiary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary (1821.08.04 – 1829.03.31)

Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1821.08.13 – 1829.03.31)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Index (1821.11.14 – 1829.03.31)

Supreme Pontiff (1829.03.31 [1829.04.05] – 1830.11.30)

Italy9. Cardinal Carlo Andrea Pelagallo

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo
former Bishop of Osimo (Italy)
former Bishop of Cingoli (Italy)

Born:1747.03.30 (Roma, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1809.12.03
Consecrated Bishop:1816.02.18
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1822.09.06 (Osimo, Italy † 75)

Bishop of Cingoli (Italy) (1815.12.18 – 1822.09.06)

Bishop of Osimo (Italy) (1815.12.18 – 1822.09.06)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Nereo ed Achilleo (1816.04.29 – 1822.09.06)

Italy10. Cardinal Benedetto Naro

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente
former Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major

Born:1744.07.26 (Roma, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1832.10.06 (Roma, Italy † 88)

Prefect of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces (1807.12.30 – 1816.03.08)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Clemente (1816.04.29 – 1832.10.06)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Index (1818.11.29 – 1821.02.10)

Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major (1824.01.01 – 1832.10.06)

Spain11. Cardinal Francsco Antonio Javier de Gardoqui Arriquíbar

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia

Born:1747.10.09 (Bilbao, Spain)
Ordained Priest:1776.06.01
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1820.01.27 (Roma, Italy † 72)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Anastasia (1817.11.15 – 1820.01.27)

Spain12. Cardinal Dionisio Bardaxí y Azara

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura

Born:1760.10.07 (Puyarruego, Spain)
Ordained Priest:1785
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1826.12.03 (Roma, Italy † 66)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XII Apostoli (1816.04.29 – 1822.09.27)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Agnese fuori le mura (1822.09.27 – 1826.12.03)

Italy13. Cardinal Antonio Lamberto Rusconi

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo
former Bishop of Imola (Italy)

Born:1743.06.19 (Cento, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1803.01.02
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Consecrated Bishop:1816.03.21
Died:1825.08.01 (Imola, Italy † 82)

Bishop of Imola (Italy) (1816.03.08 – 1825.08.01)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo (1816.04.29 – 1825.08.01)

Italy14. Cardinal Emmanuele De Gregorio (Italo-Albanese Rite)

former Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio in commendum
former Commendatory Archimandrite of Santissimo Salvatore of the Italo-Albanese (Italy)
former Major Penitentiary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary

Born:1758.12.18 (on ship, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Consecrated Bishop:1829.05.31
Died:1839.11.07 (Roma, Italy † 80)

Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major (1780 – 1821?)

Commendatory Archimandrite of Santissimo Salvatore of the Italo-Albanese (Italy) (1807 – 1839.11.07)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio (1816.04.29 – 1829.05.18)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Council (1820.05.06 – 1834.12.11)

Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1829.05.18 – 1837.10.02)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio in commendum (1829.05.18 – 1839.11.07)

Major Penitentiary of Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary (1829.05.31 – 1839.11.07)

Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1837.10.02 – 1839.11.07)

Cardinal Vice-Dean of Sacred College of Cardinals (1837.10.02 – 1839.11.07)

Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals (1838 – 1839)

Italy15. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zauli

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Onofrio

Born:1743.11.25 (Faenza, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1785
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1819.07.21 (Roma, Italy † 75)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Onofrio (1816.04.29 – 1819.07.21)

Italy16. Cardinal Nicola Riganti

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro
former Bishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy)

Born:1744.03.24 (Molfetta, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1768.08.14
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Consecrated Bishop:1816.04.21
Died:1822.08.31 (Roma, Italy † 78)

Bishop of Ancona e Umana (Italy) (1816.03.08 – 1822.08.31)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Marcellino e Pietro (1816.04.29 – 1822.08.31)

Italy17. Cardinal Alessandro Malvasia

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme

Born:1748.04.26 (Bologna, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1783.09
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1819.09.12 (Ravenna, Italy † 71)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme (1816.04.29 – 1819.09.12)

Italy18. Cardinal Francesco Luigi Fontana, B.

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva
former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith
former Superior General of Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites)

Born:1750.08.28 (Castelmaggiore, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1774
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1822.03.19 (Roma, Italy † 71)

Superior General of Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Barnabites) (1807 – 1822.03.19)

Secretary of Extraordinary Congregation for the Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Catholic World (1814 – 1816.06.30)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria sopra Minerva (1816.04.29 – 1822.03.19)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Index (1816.06.30 – 1818.09.24)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith (1818.09.24 – 1822.03.19)

Italy19. Cardinal Giovanni Caccia-Piatti

former Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Cosma e Damiano
former Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

Born:1751.03.08 (Novara, Italy)
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1833.09.15 (Novara, Italy † 82)

Cardinal-Deacon of Ss. Cosma e Damiano (1816.04.29 – 1833.09.15)

Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals (1823 – 1825)

Italy20. Cardinal Alessandro Lante Montefeltro della Rovere

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio

Born:1762.11.27 (Roma, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1818.07.14 (Bologna, Italy † 55)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio (1816.04.29 – 1818.07.14)

Italy21. Cardinal Pietro Vidoni

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere
former Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals

Born:1759.09.02 (Cremona, Italy)
Created Cardinal:1816.03.08
Died:1830.08.10 (Roma, Italy † 70)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere (1816.04.29 – 1830.08.10)

Camerlengo of Sacred College of Cardinals (1825 – 1826)

Italy[22] Cardinal Camillo De Simeoni

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina
former Bishop of Sutri (Italy)
former Bishop of Nepi (Italy)

Born:1737.12.13 (Benevento, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Consecrated Bishop:1783.03.09
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1816.07.22
Died:1818.01.02 (Sutri, Italy † 80)

Bishop of Nepi (Italy) (1782.12.16 – 1818.01.02)

Bishop of Sutri (Italy) (1782.12.16 – 1818.01.02)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina (1816.09.23 – 1818.01.02)

Italy[23] Cardinal Giovanni Battista Quarantotti

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Ara Coeli
former Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Born:1733.09.27 (Roma, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1816.07.22
Died:1820.09.15 (Roma, Italy † 86)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Ara Coeli (1816.09.23 – 1820.09.15)

Prefect of Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (1820.05.10 – 1820.09.15)

Italy[24] Cardinal Giorgio Doria Pamfilj Landi

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia
former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics

Born:1772.11.17 (Roma, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1804.05.31
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1816.07.22
Died:1837.11.16 (Roma, Italy † 64)

Master of Papal Chamber of Prefecture of the Holy Apostolic Palaces (1808.01.01 – 1816.07.22)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via (1816.09.23 – 1818.03.16)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia (1818.03.16 – 1837.11.16)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Rites (1821.02.10 – 1822)

Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics (1822 – 1837.11.16)

Italy[25] Cardinal Luigi Ercolani

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco

Born:1758.10.17 (Foligno, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1816.07.22
Died:1825.12.10 (Roma, Italy † 67)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Marco pro illa vice Deaconry (1816.09.23 – 1817.04.14)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Marco (1817.04.14 – 1825.12.10)

Italy[26] Cardinal Stanislao Sanseverino

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria ad Martyres

Born:1764.07.13 (Napoli, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1816.07.22
Died:1826.05.11 (Forlì, Italy † 61)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Portico (1816.09.23 – 1825.03.21)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria ad Martyres (1825.03.21 – 1826.05.11)

Spain[27] Cardinal Pedro Benito Antonio Quevedo y Quintano

former Bishop of Ourense (Spain)

Born:1736.01.12 (Villanueva del Fresno, Spain)
Ordained Priest:1760.03.22
Consecrated Bishop:1776.07.14
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1816.09.23
Died:1818.03.27 (Orense, Italy † 82)

Bishop of Ourense (Spain) (1776.04.15 – 1818.03.27)

Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned (1816.09.23 – 1818.03.27)

Italy[28] Cardinal Francesco Cesarei Leoni

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria del Popolo
former Bishop of Jesi (Italy)

Born:1757.01.01 (Perugia, Italy)
Ordained Priest:1797.08.27
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1817.07.28
Consecrated Bishop:1817.08.24
Died:1830.07.25 (Iesi, Italy † 73)

Dean of Sacred Roman Rota (1802.08.09 – 1817.07.28)

Bishop of Jesi (Italy) (1817.07.28 – 1830.07.25)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria del Popolo (1817.10.01 – 1830.07.25)

Italy[29] Cardinal Antonio Lante Montefeltro della Rovere

former Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quirico e Giulitta

Born:1737.12.17 (Roma, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1817.07.28
Died:1817.10.23 (Roma, Italy † 79)

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Quirico e Giulitta (1817.10.01 – 1817.10.23)

Italy[30] Cardinal Lorenzo Prospero Bottini

former Cardinal-Deacon of S. Adriano al Foro

Born:1737.03.02 (Lucca, Italy)
Ordained Priest:
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1817.10.01
Died:1818.08.11 (Roma, Italy † 81)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Adriano al Foro (1817.11.15 – 1818.08.11)

Italy[31] Cardinal Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana
former Bishop of Senigallia (Italy)

Born:1757.04.01 (Valletta, Malta)
Ordained Priest:1802
Consecrated Bishop:1802.12.21
Created Cardinal in pectore:1816.03.08
Revealed as Cardinal:1818.04.06
Died:1843.08.03 (Senigallia, Italy † 86)

Titular Archbishop of Beirut (1802.09.20 – 1818.04.06)

Secretary of Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars (1815 – 1818.04.06)

Bishop of Senigallia (Italy) (1818.04.06 – 1843.08.03)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana (1818.05.25 – 1843.08.03)

Consistory of 1816.09.23 (4)

Spain1. Cardinal Francisco Antonio Cebrián y Valda

former Bishop of Orihuela (Spain)

Born:1734.02.19 (San Felipe, Spain)
Ordained Priest:
Consecrated Bishop:1797.10.08
Created Cardinal:1816.09.23
Died:1820.02.08 (Madrid, Spain † 85)

Bishop of Orihuela (Spain) (1797.07.23 – 1815.07.10)

Patriarch of Indias Occidentales (1815.07.10 – 1820.02.08)

Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned (1816.09.23 – 1820.02.08)

Czechia2. Cardinal Maria-Thaddeus von Trauttmansdorf-Wiesnberg

former Metropolitan Archbishop of Olomouc (Czechia)

Born:1761.05.28 (Graz, Austria)
Ordained Priest:1783.12.20
Consecrated Bishop:1795.09.08
Created Cardinal:1816.09.23
Died:1819.01.20 (Wien, Austria † 57)

Bishop of Hradec Králové (Czechia) (1795.07.01 – 1811.11.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Olomouc (Czechia) (1811.11.26 – 1819.01.20)

Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned (1816.09.23 – 1819.01.20)

Austria3. Cardinal Franziskus Xavier von Salm-Reifferscheidt

former Bishop of Gurk (Austria)

Born:1749.02.01 (Wien, Austria)
Ordained Priest:1775.08.25
Consecrated Bishop:1784.08.09
Created Cardinal:1816.09.23
Died:1822.04.19 (Klangenfurt, Austria † 73)

Bishop of Gurk (Austria) (1783.11.20 – 1822.04.19)

Cardinal-Priest with no Title assigned (1816.09.23 – 1822.04.19)

Italy4. Cardinal Paolo Giuseppe Solaro

former Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli
former Bishop of Aosta (Italy)

Born:1743.01.24 (Szeben, Romania)
Ordained Priest:1766.02.22
Consecrated Bishop:1784.09.26
Created Cardinal:1816.09.23
Died:1824.09.09 (Torino, Italy † 81)

Bishop of Aosta (Italy) (1784.09.20 – 1804.06.21)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli (1823.11.24 – 1824.09.09)

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