Francesco_Pannocchieschi
Francesco Pannocchieschi
Italian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop
Francesco Pannocchieschi d'Elci (1625 or 1626, Florence - 20 June 1702) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop.
He came from a noble Sienese family of the Pannocchieschi d'Elci, who held the status of counts. He was the son of count Ranieri and a noblewoman from the Altoviti family. One of Ranieri's brothers was cardinal Scipione Pannocchieschi, whom Francesco accompanied during Scipione's Pontifical Legature to the Republic of Venice (1647-1652). Scipione's Relazione sulle cose della repubblica offers a glimpse of life in Venice at that time.[1][2] Francesco also assisted Scipione to the court of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor in Germany (1653-1654).
This acted as an introduction to the church's life in Rome - Francesco became secret chamberlin or 'cubicularius' to the pope and canon of St Peter's Basilica.[3] He succeeded his uncle as archbishop of Pisa in 1663 and made a solemn entrance into Pisa on 23 December 1663. He remained in Pisa for almost forty years, finally dying there on 20 June 1702.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:[4]
- Fortunato Ilario Carafa della Spina, Bishop of Aversa (1687);
- Innico Caracciolo (iuniore), Bishop of Aversa (1697);
- Bonaventura Poerio, Archbishop of Salerno (1697);
- Luigi Ruzini, Bishop of Bergamo (1698);
- Denis Delfino (patriarch), Titular Bishop of Lorea and Coadjutor Patriarch of Aquileia (1698);
- Uldericus Nardi, Bishop of Bagnoregio (1698);
- Giulio Dalla Rosa, Bishop of Borgo San Donnino (1698);
- Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo, Bishop of Verona (1698);
- Alessandro Carlo Gaetano Varano, Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino (1698);
- Agustín Antonio de Arellano, Archbishop of Brindisi (1698);
- Ambrogio Croce, Bishop of Bobbio (1698);
- Gaetano De Andrea, Bishop of Monopoli (1698);
- Michele Gallo Vandeinde, Bishop of Capri (1698); and
- Antonio Forteguerra, Bishop of Pienza (1698).
- Ellen Rosand, Opera in Seventeenth-Century - Venice: The Creation of a Genre, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991, p. 152-153.
- (in Italian) Pompeo Molmenti, Venezia alla metà del secolo XVII : relazione inedita di monsignor Francesco Pannocchieschi, Roma,Tipografia della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 1916.
- (in Latin) Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo, Leipzig, Hiersemann, 1931.
- Cheney, David M. "Archbishop Francesco Pannocchieschi d'Elci". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Pisa". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
- Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pisa (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
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| Preceded by | Archbishop of Pisa 1663–1702 |
Succeeded by Francesco Frosini |
