Ignazio Busca
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Ignazio Busca (31 August 1731 – 12 August 1803) was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Secretary of State of the Holy See. He was mae a cardinal in 1789
Biography
[edit]Busca was born in Milan as the last son of Lodovico Busca, marquess of Lomagna and Bianca Arconati Visconti. he took a degree in utroque iure in 1759 at the Università La Sapienza of Rome. Relator of the Sacred Consulta and referendary of the tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, he was ordained priest on 20 August 1775.
Elected titular archbishop of Emesa, he was consecrated on 17 September 1775 in Frascati, by Henry Benedict Stuart. He was apostolic nuncio in Flanders and apostolic vicar for Netherlands from 1776 to 1785 and later was governor of Rome from 1785 until 1789. Created cardinal in the consistory of 30 March 1789, he received the Galero and the title of Santa Maria della Pace on 3 August 1789. He was appointed Secretary of State by Pope Pius VI in 1796. He participated in the conclave of 1800.
He died in 1803 in ROme.
- 1731 births
- 1803 deaths
- Clergy from Milan
- 18th-century Italian cardinals
- 18th-century Italian historians
- Italian poets
- Italian male poets
- Italian essayists
- Cardinal Secretaries of State
- Italian male essayists
- Cardinals created by Pope Pius VI
- 18th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
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