Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Eminence |
Girolamo Boncompagni | |
Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna | |
Church: | Roman Catholic |
Archdiocese: | Bologna |
Appointed: | 11 December 1651 |
Ended: | 24 January 1684 |
Consecration: | 4 February 1652 |
Consecrated By: | Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi |
Cardinal: | 14 January 1664 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Alexander VII |
Rank: | Cardinal-Priest |
Birth Date: | 23 March 1622 |
Birth Place: | Isola del Liri, Papal States |
Death Place: | Bologna, Papal States |
Other Post: | Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro (1664–84) |
Girolamo Boncompagni (23 March 1622 – 24 January 1684) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.
He was the great-grandson of Pope Gregory XIII. There were several other Cardinals in his family; he was the Grand-nephew of Cardinal Filippo Boncompagni (1572), nephew of Cardinal Francesco Boncompagni (1621) and uncle of another Cardinal Girolamo Boncompagni, archbishop of Bologna (1695).[1]
On 4 February 1652, he was consecrated bishop by Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, with Ranuccio Scotti Douglas, Bishop Emeritus of Borgo San Donnino, and Carlo Carafa della Spina, Bishop of Aversa, serving as co-consecrators.[2]
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:
and the principal co-consecrator of: