Church Roman Catholic Church Name Marcantonio Barbarigo Installed 1687 Consecration June 26, 1678 | Term ended 26 February 1706 Appointed July 7, 1687 Predecessor Domenico Massimo | |
See Montefiascone e Corneto Successor Sebastiano Pompilio Bonaventura Died May 26, 1706, Montefiascone, Italy Archdiocese Roman Catholic Diocese of Montefiascone Previous post Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Corfu-Zakynthos-Cephalonia, Santa Susanna | ||
Created cardinal September 2, 1686 | ||
The Venerable Marcantonio Barbarigo (6 March 1640 – 26 May 1706) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the founder of the Pontifical Institute of the Religious Teachers Filippini and also founded both the Religious Teachers Filippini of Montefiascone and the Augustinian Sisters of Divine Love. The latter no longer exists. He was the great-uncle of Pope Clement XIII and was a relative of Saint Gregorio Barbarigo.
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In the process towards sainthood Pope Benedict XVI approved that he lived a life of heroic virtue and bestowed upon him the title of Venerable in 2007.
Biography
Marcantonio Barbarigo was born on 6 March 1640 in Venice as the sixth child of Antonio Barbarigo and Agnesia Falier. Barbarigo studied in Padua where he earned a doctorate in both canon law and civil law. He abandoned a successful diplomatic career in order to follow his religious vocation.
Barbarigo was ordained to the priesthood in Padua and Pope Innocent XI later appointed him as the Bishop of Corfu in 1678. His relative Gregorio Barbarigo bestowed upon him episcopal consecration in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella on 26 June 1678 and was later granted the pallium the next month.
Pope Innocent XI elevated him into the cardinalate on 2 September 1686 as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna. He was transferred to the see of Montefiascone and Corneto in 1687 with the title of Archbishop. He participated in the papal conclave of 1689 which resulted in the election of Pope Alexander VIII and also partook in the conclave of 1691 that saw the election of Pope Innocent XII. He later opted to be the Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in 1697 and partook in the papal conclave of 1700 that saw the election of Pope Clement XI.
Barbarigo died on 26 May 1706 at 10:00am in Montefiascone in the residence of the bishop. He was buried in the tomb where bishops of the see were buried but was later transferred to another church and his heart placed in the Montefiascone seminary.
Sainthood
The cause of beatification was introduced on 23 March 1941 and bestowed on him the title of Servant of God and the Positio was forwarded to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 2006. Pope Benedict XVI approved that he lived a life of heroic virtue and proclaimed him to be Venerable on 6 July 2007.