Girolamo Simoncelli (1522,
Orvieto
Orvieto () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are compl ...
, then in the Papal States – 24 February 1605, Rome) was an Italian cardinal.
Life
Simoncelli was made a cardinal by his great-uncle,
Pope Julius III
Pope Julius III ( la, Iulius PP. III; it, Giulio III; 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 February 1550 to his death in March 155 ...
, in the consistory of 22 December 1553. He was elected
bishop of Orvieto
The Diocese of Orvieto-Todi ( la, Dioecesis Urbevetana-Tudertina) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in central Italy. It was created in 1986 when the historical Diocese of Orvieto was united to the Dioc ...
in 1554 and administrator in 1570. He took part in the two conclaves in
April
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April is commonly associated with ...
and
May
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May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, May ...
1555, those in
1559
Year 1559 ( MDLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 15 – Elizabeth I of England is crowned, in Westminster Abbey.
* February 27 ...
and
1565–66, the two in
September
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and
October–December 1590, and those in
1591
Events
January–June
* March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi dynasty ruler of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, and led by Judar Pasha, defeat the fractured Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at l ...
and
1592
Events
January–June
* January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope. He immediately recalls the Sixtine Vulgate.
* February 7 – G ...
. He was cardinal protopriest from 1598 onwards and vice-dean of the College of Cardinals from 1603.
The
Prophecy of the Popes
The Prophecy of the Popes ( la, Prophetia Sancti Malachiae Archiepiscopi, de Summis Pontificibus, "Prophecy of Saint-Archbishop Malachy, concerning the Supreme Pontiffs") is a series of 112 short, cryptic phrases in Latin which purport to predict ...
was possibly forged in order to support Simoncelli's bid for the papacy in the
second conclave of 1590.
References
External links
*http://www.diocesituscolana.it/cronologia/resfrascati.asp?idx=gs1600
1522 births
1605 deaths
16th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinal-nephews
People from Orvieto
17th-century Italian cardinals
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