The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

Biographical Dictionary
Pope John XIX (1024-1032)
Creation of 1030 (IV)


(9) 1. GIOVANNI (ca. 1001-1039)

Birth. Ca. 1001, Rome. Of a patrician family.

Education. (No information found).

Cardinalate. Created cardinal deacon of S. Agata in Suburra ca. 1030 (or 1024 or 1025). Subscribed papal bull issued in September 1025 and September 1027. Replaced Cardinal deacon Pietro as chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. He attended, together with Pope John XIX, the consecration of the patriarchal cathedral of Aquileia, erected by Poppone, patriarch of that see, on July 13, 1031.

Episcopate. Named bishop of Palestrina by Pope Benedict IXon December 2, 1036. He consecrated the altar of the diaconal church of S. Agata in Suburra in honor of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Death. December 13, 1039, at 38 years of age, (no place found). Buried in his former deaconry, between his brothers Pietro and Andrea, with a long epitaph.

Bibliography. "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux du XIè siècle". Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1927. Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1928, p. 133, no. 10; Moroni, Gaetano. Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni. 103 vols. in 53. Venezia : Tipografia Emiliana, 1840-1861, XXXI, 70-71; Regesta pontificum Romanorum ab conditio Ecclesia. Ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII. Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1956. 2 v. Reprint. Originally published : Lipsiae : Veit et comp., 1885-1888. Original t.p. included : Regesta pontificum Romanorum ab condita ecclesia : ad annum post Christum natum MCXCVIII. Editionem secundam correctam et auctam edidit Philippus Jaffè ; auspiciis Gulielmi Wattenbach; curaverunt S. Loewenfeld, F. Kaltenbrunner, P. Ewald, I, .

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