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Archetti, Giovanni Andrea

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ARCHETTI, GIOVANNI ANDREA. - Apostolic nuncio in Russia, b. at Brescia in 1731, d. at Ascoli in 1805. Having obtained a degree in utroque, he was appointed vice-legate at Bologna by Benedict XIV (1736). From there he passed to the nunciature of Warsaw in 1776, where he remained until 1784. From June 1783 to May 1784 he was at St. Petersburg as extraordinary nuncio to Catherine II. He succeeded in settling the complicated question of the ecclesiastical hierarchy in Russia by erecting the Catholic archbishopric of Mohilev and appointing its first incumbent. He was named cardinal in 1784.

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BIBL.: V. Neysatowicz, De archivo numizaturae Varsaviae, quod nunc in Archivo Secreto Vaticano servatur, Vatican City 1944.

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By Alberto Maria Ammann

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 1812.

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Ammann, Alberto Maria. “Archetti, giovanni andrea.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1812. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/archetti-giovanni-andrea.

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Ammann, Alberto Maria. “Archetti, giovanni andrea.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1812. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/archetti-giovanni-andrea.

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@incollection{ec1_archetti_giovanni_andrea,
  author    = {Ammann, Alberto Maria},
  title     = {Archetti, giovanni andrea},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1812},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/archetti-giovanni-andrea}
}

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