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Gondi, Pietro

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Also known as: French: Cardinal de Gondi, Pierre de Gondi

GONDI, PIETRO. - Cardinal, b. in Lyon in 1532, d. in Paris on 17 Feb. 1616. Court chaplain and chancellor of the diocese of Langres, where he was elected bishop in 1566; he was transferred to the see of Paris in 1569 and created cardinal by Sixtus V on 18 Dec. 1587. He exercised his ministry as a pious and zealous pastor in troubled and difficult times (v. UOONOTTI), and, although not uninvolved in political activities (at the Colloquy of Poissy in 1561, in Rome in 1576 and 1585, and in the negotiations for the absolution of Henry IV), he carried out predominantly an action of charitable succor of the poor, especially during the siege of Paris of 1589.

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BIBL.: Eubel, III, pp. 52, 226, 270; A. Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae pontificum Romanorum et S.R.E. cardinalium IV. Rome 1677, coll. 180-82; Pastor, IX, passim.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 915.

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Cistellini, Antonio. “Gondi, pietro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 915. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/gondi-pietro.

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Cistellini, Antonio. “Gondi, pietro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 915. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/gondi-pietro.

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@incollection{ec6_gondi_pietro,
  author    = {Cistellini, Antonio},
  title     = {Gondi, pietro},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {915},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/gondi-pietro}
}

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