Ignazio Busca was an Italian cardinal

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

 and Secretary of State

Cardinal Secretary of State

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 of the Holy See

Holy See

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. He was the last son of Lodovico Busca, marquess of Lomagna

Lomagna

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 and Bianca Arconati Visconti. he took a degree in utroque iure in 1759 at the Università La Sapienza of Rome

Rome

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. Relator of the Sacred Consulta and referendary of the tribunal of the Apostolic Signature, he was ordained priest on August 20, 1775. Elected titular archbishop of Emesa, he was consecrated on September 17, 1775 in Frascati

Frascati

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, by Henry Benedict Stuart

Henry Benedict Stuart

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. He was apostolic nuncio in Flanders

Flanders

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 and apostolic vicar for Netherlands

Netherlands

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 from 1776 to 1785 and later was governor of Rome from 1785 until 1789. Created cardinal in the consistory

Consistory

-Antiquity:Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply 'sitting together', just as the Greek synedrion ....

 of March 30, 1789, he received the Galero

Galero

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 and the title

Title

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 of Santa Maria della Pace

Santa Maria della Pace

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on August 3, 1789. He was appointed Secretary of State by Pope Pius VI

Pope Pius VI

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 in 1796. He participated in the conclave of 1800

Papal conclave, 1800

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