Giuseppe Accoramboni
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Giuseppe Accoramboni JUD
JUD
A Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, from the Latin doctor utriusque juris, or juris utriusque doctor, or doctor juris utriusque is a scholar who has acquired a doctorate in both civil law and church law...

 (24 September 1672 – 21 March 1747) was an Italian Cardinal who served as bishop of Imola.

Accoramboni was born in Castel de Preci, diocese of Spoleto and was baptised
Baptism
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 on the same day. He was educated that the University of Perugia
University of Perugia
University of Perugia is a public-owned university based in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale....

 where he earned a doctorate in utroque iure, (both canon and civil law) on 6 May 1694.

Early life

He worked as an auditor of Michelangelo Cardinal Conti
Pope Innocent XIII
Pope Innocent XIII was pope from 1721 until his death.He was born Michelangelo Conti in Poli, near Rome. Like Pope Innocent III , Pope Gregory IX and Pope Alexander IV , he was a member of the family of the Conti, counts and dukes of Segni...

 future Pope Innocent XIII. He also served as a Sub-datary of His Holiness
Apostolic Dataria
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 from 1721. He was a canon of the patriarchal Vatican basilica and worked at the Sacred Roman Rota.

He was ordained on 14 February 1723. He served on the Supreme Tribunals of the Apostolic Signatura
Apostolic Signatura
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 and of Grace,

Episcopate

He was appointed archbishop of Filippi in partibus infidelium
Titular see
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on 11 September 1724 and was consecrated on 21 September by Pope Benedict XIII
Pope Benedict XIII
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. He served as a consultor of the Ss.CC. of Rites
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is the congregation of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the Latin Catholic Church as distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches and also some technical matters relating to the...

 and of the Roman and Universal Inquisition
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition , and after 1904 called the Supreme...

. He was transferred to the see of Imola, with personal title of archbishop and retaining all his other posts on 12 April 1728.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Traspontina in the consistory of 20 September 1728. He participated in the conclave of 1730
Papal conclave, 1730
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, which elected Pope Clement XII
Pope Clement XII
Pope Clement XII , born Lorenzo Corsini, was Pope from 12 July 1730 to 6 February 1740.Born in Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Corsini, Marquis of Casigliano and his wife Isabella Strozzi, sister of the Duke of Bagnuolo, Corsini had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding...

. He was also able to participate in the conclave of 1740
Papal conclave, 1740
The Papal conclave of 18 February to 17 August 1740, convoked after the death of Pope Clement XII on 6 February 1740, was one of the longest conclaves since the 13th century....

, which elected Pope Benedict XIV
Pope Benedict XIV
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. He was appointed to the order of Cardinal-Bishops taking the suburbicarian see of Frascati on 11 March 1743.

He died in 1747, around 9 p.m. His body was exposed in the church of S. Ignazio
Sant'Ignazio
The Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius is Roman Catholic titular church dedicated to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, located in Rome, Italy...

, Rome, and buried in that same church.
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