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Nuncios to France (1620-1689)

Based on:

Biaudet, Henry. Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes jusqu'en 1648. Helsinki, 1910.

Bruno, Neveu. Correspondance du nonce en France, Angelo Ranuzzi. Rome, 1973.

Karttunen, Liisi. Les nonciatures apostoliques permanentes de 1650 à 1800. Genève, 1912. 


 

Guido Bentivoglio

Archbishop of Aragona

(cardinal from 1621)

8 September 1616 (B[1])

11 January 1621

Ottavio Corsini

Bishop of Tarso

4 April 1621 (B)

December 1523

Bernardino Spada

Titular bishop of Tamiathis

(cardinal from 1626)

4 December 1623 (B)

February 1627

Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno

Titular archbishop of Patras

(cardinal from 1629)

27 February 1627 (B)

September 1630

Alessandro Bichi

Bischop of Carpentras

(cardinal from 1633)

6 September 1630 (B)

March 1634

Giorgio Bolognetti

Bischop of Ascoli Satriano

(from 1639 bishop of Rieti)

26 March 1634 (B)

8 August 1639

Ranuccio Scotti

Bishop of Borgo San Donnino

8 August 1639 (B)

March 1641

Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni

Titular Archbishop of Seleucia

9 March 1641 (B)

June 1643

Nicolò Guidi di Bagno

Titular Archbshop of Athens

23 April 1644

5 December 1656

 

Celio Piccolomini

Titular Archbishop of Caesarea

15 November 1659

30 Augustus 1663

 

Rospigliosi

Internuncio, abt

1663

 

 

Carlo Roberti de’ Vittori

Archbishop of Tarsus

(cardinal from 1666)

26 April 1664 (B)

April 1667

 

Michele Antonio Vibo

Internuncio, abt of Rivalta

April 1667

March 1668

 

Pietro Bargellini

Archbishop in partibus of Thebe

11 February 1668 (B)

July 1671

 

Michele Antonio Vibo

Internuncio, abt of Rivalta

July 1671

June 1672

 

Francesco Nerli

Archbishop of Florence

(cardinal from 1673)

26 April 1672 (B)

July 1673

 

Angelo Farratini

Internuncio, abt of San Niccolò

July 1673

6 January 1668

 

Fabrizio Spada

Titular archbishop of Patras

(cardinal from 1675)

6 January 1674 (B)

27 August 1675

 

Francesco Maria Montani

Internuncio

30 Augustus 1675

Januari 1677

 

Pompeo Varese

Archbishop of Andrianopolis

27 January 1677 (B)

November 1678

 

Giovanni Battista Lauri

Ad interim

November 1678

24 April 1686

 

Angelo Maria Ranuzzi[2]

Archbishop of Fano

(cardinal from 1686)

1683

1689

 

 



[1] (B) indicates the date of the papal brief of nomination. All other dates indicate the known date of arrival in France, or the date of the first letter sent by the new nuncio.

[2] Bruno, N. Correspondance du nonce en France, Angelo Ranuzzi. Rome, 1973.