Giuseppe Firrao (seniore) explained

Type:	Cardinal
Honorific-Prefix:	His Eminence
Giuseppe Firrao
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Church:	Catholic Church
Consecration:	11 Apr 1717
Consecrated By:	Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirzbach
Birth Date:	12 Jul 1670
Birth Place:	Luzzi, Italy
Death Date:	24 Oct 1744 (age 74)

Giuseppe Firrao (1670–1744) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Biography

He is the Great-uncle of Cardinal Giuseppe Firrao (iuniore). On 11 Apr 1717, he was consecrated bishop by Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirzbach, Bishop of Basel, with Johann Christoph Haus, Titular Bishop of Domitiopolis, and Konrad Ferdinand Geist von Wildegg, Titular Bishop of Tricale, serving as co-consecrators.^[1] ^[2]

On 4 October 1733, Pope Clement XII appointed Firrao his Secretary of State.^[3]

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:

Cardella, Lorenzo (1794). Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. Vol.VIII. Rome: Pagliarini, pp. 252–253.
Pastor, Ludwig (von) (1941). The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages. Vol. XXXIV (London: Kegan Paul). pp. 37, 181,

334. 338, 385. 386, 390, 403.

Weber, Christoph (1994). Legati e governatori dello Stato Pontificio : 1550-1809. Roma : Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici, pp. 117, 220, 282, 333, 418, 433 and 673.

Web site: Salvador Miranda (historian) . Miranda . Salvador . FIRRAO, Giuseppe (1670-1744) . The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church . Florida International University. 53276621 .
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Pastor, pp. 333-334.