Carlo Pio di Savoia

Carlo Pio di Savoia
Most Reverend; Carlo Pio di Savoia
Church	Catholic Church
Orders
Consecration	5 Sep 1655; by Giambattista Spada
Personal details
Born	7 April 1622
Died	13 February 1689 (age 66)

Carlo Pio di Savoia (7 April 1622 – 13 February 1689) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal of the Pio di Savoia family. He was the nephew of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia.

Early life

Pio was born 7 April 1622, the son of Ascanio Pio di Savoia and Eleonora Mattei.

At age 17, Pio went to Rome and then travelled throughout Europe until 1641. Thereafter he joined the army of the Duke of Ferrara as a colonel but was captured by the Florentines in Moncessino. He was released at the end of the war and was appointed treasurer-general of the Apostolic Chamber in 1650. Two years later he bought a position (as was the custom) as personal treasurer to Pope Innocent X.[1]

On 5 Sep 1655, he was consecrated bishop by Giambattista Spada, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna, with Carlo Nembrini, Bishop of Parma, and Giacomo Theodoli, Bishop of Forli, serving as co-consecrators.[1]

Ecclesiastic career

On 2 March 1654 he was elevated to cardinal by Pope Innocent and was appointed Cardinal-deacon of the church of Santa Maria in Domnica. Over the subsequent two decades he was appointed to various churches as Cardinal-deacon and Cardinal-priest including:[2]

Cardinal-deacon of Sant'Eustachio (11 February 1664)
Cardinal-priest of Santa Prisca (14 November 1667)
Cardinal-priest of San Crisogono (28 January 1675)
Cardinal-priest of S. Maria in Trastevere (1 December 1681)
Cardinal-bishop of Sabina (15 February 1683)

Between 1673 and his death in 1689, he served as Cardinal-protector of Austria.

References

Miranda, Salvador. "PIO, iuniore, Carlo (1622-1689)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
Cheney, David M. "Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved December 24, 2019. ^{[self-published]}

Bibliography

Baroni, Pier Giovanni (1969). Un cardinale del Seicento: Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia (in Italian). Bologna: Ponte nuovo.
Cardella, Lorenzo (1793). Memorie storiche de'cardinali della santa Romana chiesa (in Italian). Vol. VII. Roma: Pagliarini. pp. 115–118.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Lorenzo Raggi	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica 1654–1664	Succeeded by Sigismondo Chigi
Preceded by Francesco Maria Macchiavelli	Bishop of Ferrara 1655–1663	Succeeded by Giovanni Stefano Donghi
Preceded by Lorenzo Raggi	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Eustachio 1664–1667	Succeeded by Friedrich von Hessen-Darmstadt
Preceded by Giulio Gabrielli	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca 1667–1675	Succeeded by Alessandro Crescenzi
Preceded by Giambattista Spada	Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono 1675–1681	Succeeded by Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni
Preceded by Francesco Albizzi	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere 1681–1683	Succeeded by Decio Azzolini (iuniore)
Preceded by Pietro Vito Ottoboni	Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina 1683–1689	Succeeded by Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni

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[MirandaCarloPio-1] Miranda, Salvador. "PIO, iuniore, Carlo (1622-1689)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. Retrieved 29 February 2016.

[CathHierCarloPio-2] Cheney, David M. "Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved December 24, 2019. ^{[self-published]}