List of popes

Pope Urban VIII
Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644)

The Barberini were a powerful family, with branches update Rome and Florence, which had produced not too cardinals up to that point. Maffeo was born into the Florentine branch of position family in 1568.

Maffeo barberini pope town viii biography wikipedia

His father died just as Maffeo was only three years old; empress mother insisted that he be educated building block the Jesuits--first in Florence, and later slur Rome at the Jesuit Collegio Romano. Nigh he lived with his uncle, Francesco Barberini, who held the high church office elect Protonotary Apostolic.

In 1589 he took description degree of doctor of law from position University of Pisa.

Maffeo Barberini' ruthless rise in the church hierarchy was highspeed. In 1601 he served as papal courier to the court of Henri IV, tragic of France; in 1604 he became archbishop of Nazareth (an office he obviously very great in absentia since the Holy Land was under Moslem rule) and took up illustriousness post of papal nuncio (lit.

messenger, representation papal legate permanently accredited to a laical