Girolamo Verospi

Girolamo Verospi (1599 – 5 January 1652) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

Verospi was born in 1599 in Rome; the son of Ferdinando Verospi and Giulia de' Massimi and the nephew of Cardinal Fabrizio Verospi. At a young age he became an advocate of causes to the Roman Curia and auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota in 1627.[1]

He was elevated to cardinal by Pope Urban VIII in 1641 and was made Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agnese in Agone the following year.[2] At the same time he was appointed Bishop of Osimo.[3] He was consecrated at the Sistine chapel by Cardinal Antonio Marcello Barberini.

Verospi participated in the Papal conclave of 1644 which elected Pope Innocent X.

Verospi died on 5 January 1652 at Osimo and news of his death reached Rome two days later.

References

1. S. Miranda: Girolamo Verospi
2. Cheney, David M. "Girolamo Cardinal Verospi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}
3. Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 104. (in Latin)