Giuseppe Accoramboni

Giuseppe Accoramboni JUD (24 September 1672 – 21 March 1747) was an Italian Cardinal who served as Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati, and had previously been Archbishop of Imola.

Early life Accoramboni was born in Castel de Preci, diocese of Spoleto and was baptised on the same day. He completed his education at the University of Perugia, obtaining a doctorate in both canon and civil law (utroque iure) in 1694. He worked as an auditor of Michelangelo Cardinal Conti future Pope Innocent XIII. He also served as a Sub-datary of His Holiness from 1721. He was a canon of the patriarchal Vatican basilica and worked at the Sacred Roman Rota.

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

Episcopate He was appointed archbishop of Philippi in partibus infidelium on 11 September 1724 and was consecrated on 21 September by Pope Benedict XIII with Mondilio Orsini, Titular Archbishop of Corinthus, and Pierre-Guérin de Tencin, Archbishop of Embrun, serving as co-consecrators. 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 Sant'Ignazio, Rome, and buried in that same church.