Antonio Saverio Cardinal Gentili †

Deceased

Prefect of the Congregation of the Council

Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Feb 1681		Born
1 Jan 1724	42.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Mar 1727	46.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palaestina
23 Mar 1727	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palaestina
Apr 1728³	47.1	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation of the Council
Sep 1728³	47.5	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars
1731¹	49.8	Resigned	Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars
24 Sep 1731	50.6	Elevated to Cardinal
19 Nov 1731	50.7	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
Oct 1736³	55.6	Appointed	Pro-Prefect of the Congregation of the Council
20 Mar 1737	56.1	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation of the Council
10 Apr 1747	66.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
13 Mar 1753	72.0	Died	Prefect of the Congregation of the Council

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Antonio Saverio Gentili
Antonio Saverio Cardinal Gentili
(born 9 Feb 1681, died 13 Mar 1753)
Prefect of Council

Consistory - 1731: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1740: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 29.1 years
a bishop for 25.9 years
a cardinal for 21.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Benedict XIII
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Braschi †
Titular Archbishop of Nisibis
Bishop Nicolas-Xavier Santamarie †
Titular Bishop of Cyrene

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Filippo de Amato † (1731)
Archbishop Gennaro Guglielmini † (1731)
Archbishop Luigi d’Alessandro † (1732)
Archbishop Matteo Trigona † (1732)
Bishop Massenzio (dei Conti) Filo † (1733)
Archbishop Pietro Bonaventura Savini † (1735)
Bishop Francesco Carafa † (1736)
Bishop Ippolito de Rossi † (1736)
Bishop Bonaventure (Daniel) O’Gallagher, O.F.M. † (1737)
Bishop Bernardino Vari † (1739)
Carlo Francesco Cardinal Durini † (1739)
Marcello Cardinal Crescenzi † (1739)
Bishop Pompeo Compagnoni † (1740)
Bishop Paolo Bonavisa † (1742)
Archbishop Francesco Antonio Cavalcanti, C.R. † (1743)
Bishop Ettore Molza † (1743)
Bishop Giuseppe Giusti † (1743)
Bishop John Brett, O.P. † (1743)
Bishop Serafin Torriani, O.F.M. Ref. † (1746)
Bishop Giovanni Battista Campagnoli † (1746)
Bishop Antonio Maria Arduini, O.F.M. Conv. † (1746)
Bishop Dominico Maria Saporiti † (1747)
Bishop Leonardo Cecconi † (1748)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Domenico Rossi (Rosso e Colonna), O.S.B. † (1727)
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Rovero (Rotario da Pralormo) † (1727)
Bishop Saverio Ferrari † (1727)
Archbishop Giovanni Fabrizio de Capua † (1727)
Bishop Alessandro Caputo, O. Carm. † (1728)
Bishop Tommaso Falcoia, C.P.O. † (1730)
Bishop Antonio Redetti † (1730)
Bishop Agostino Rivarola † (1730)
Bishop Francesco Riccardo Ferniani † (1731)
Archbishop Arcangelo Maria Luc Thomas Ciccarelli, O.P. † (1731)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Carlo Vittorio Amedeo Cardinal delle Lanze † (1747)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/84827
VIAF: 35211056
WikiData: Q980100

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 24 Sep 1731
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 312
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 198, Additions/Corrections (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1727, Number 15

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