Gregorio Barbarigo was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and scholar.

Born into a famous family from Venice

Venice

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, he traveled with the Venetian ambassador Alvise Contarini to the Congress of Münster in 1648, where the Peace of Westphalia

Peace of Westphalia

The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October of 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the...

 was developed. Soon he became a priest and was consecrated as the first Bishop of Bergamo by Pope Alexander VII

Pope Alexander VII

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, whom he had met in Germany. After that, he was made a cardinal, and bishop of the Diocese of Padua.