The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

Biographical Dictionary
Adrian I (772-795)
Creation of April 778 (III)


(3) 1. PIETRO (?-before 799)

Birth. (No deate or place found).

Education. (No information found).

Cardinalate. Bishop cardinalis of Sabina in April 778 (1). Consecrated (no information found).

Death. Before 799, (no place found). Buried (no information found).

Bibliography. Cristofori, Francesco. Cronotasi dei cardinali di Santa Romana Chiesa. Rome : Tipografia de Propaganda Fide, 1888, p. 32; "Essai de liste générale des cardinaux. Les cardinaux des 10 premiers siècles". Annuaire Pontifical Catholique 1926. Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1927, p. 149, no. 3; Gams, Pius Bonifatius. Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae. 3 v. in 1. Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1957, p. XII.

(1) The diocese of Sabina included those of Foronovo, Curi, and Metana, united under that name in 984. The episcopal series starts after 415. This is its first cardinal. The diocese of Poggio Mirteto was united to Sabina on June 3, 1925. Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae, p. XII, lists him as bishop of Sabina and says that some sources indicate that he was bishop of Rieti.

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