Cesare Facchinetti was an Italian

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 Catholic

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 Cardinal

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Facchinetti was born 17 September 1608 in Bologna

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. He was the son of Ludovico Facchinetti (2nd Marquis

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 of Vianino], Senator of Bologna, Ambassador of Bologna to the Holy See

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) and Violante da Correggio (Countess of Coenzo

Sorbolo

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). He was the great grand-nephew of Gian Facchinetti who took the papal throne in 1591 as Pope Innocent IX

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He went to Rome in 1632 and became Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signatura

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. Thereafter he was send to Spain

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 as an apostolic nuncio

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. Upon his return, he was elevated to Cardinal on 13 July 1643 by Pope Urban VIII

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 and was installed as Cardinal-Priest at the Santi Quattro Coronati

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 basilica.

In 1671 he was appointed Cardinal-Priest at San Lorenzo in Lucina

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, in 1672 Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina

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 and in 1679 Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e S. Rufina

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. At the death of Francesco Barberini

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 (10 December 1679) he became Dean of the College of Cardinals

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 and in the consistory of 8 January 1680 Innocent XI appointed him Bishop of Ostia

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, pro-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church and Secretary of the Roman Inquisition

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 and Bishop of Ostia

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; positions he held until his death.

Facchinetti participated in every papal conclave

Papal conclave

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 between 1644 and 1676 including 1644

Papal conclave, 1644

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, 1655

Papal conclave, 1655

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, 1667

Papal conclave, 1667

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, 1669-1670

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 and 1676

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He died 30 January 1683 in Rome

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