{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic cardinal}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = His Eminence | name = Cosimo de Torres | title = Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale | image = Card de torres.jpg | alt = | caption = | image_size=240px | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = | other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1641–42) | term = 1634–1642 | predecessor = Jerónimo Venero Leyva | successor = Giovanni Torresiglia
<!-- Orders --> | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = April 25, 1621 | consecrated_by = Maffeo Barberini | cardinal = | rank = Cardinal-Priest <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = 1584 | birth_place = Rome, Papal States | death_date = 1 May 1642 (age 58) | death_place = Rome, Papal States | previous_post = Titular Archbishop of ''Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto'' (1621–22)<br>Apostolic Nuncio to Poland (1621–22)<br> Prefect of the Congregation of the Council (1623–26)<br>Bishop of Perugia (1624–34)<br>Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio (1623–41) | nationality = Italian }}
'''Cosimo de Torres''' also '''Cosmo de Torres''' and '''Cosma de Torres''' (1584–1642) was a Roman Catholic cardinal who served as Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1641–1642), Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio (1623–1641), Archbishop of Monreale (1634–1642), Bishop of Perugia (1624–1634), Apostolic Nuncio to Poland (1621–1622), and Titular Archbishop of ''Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto'' (1621–1622).<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres>{{cite web |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title= TORRES, Cosimo de (1584-1642) |url= https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1622.htm#Torres |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name=CathHierCosimoTorres>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btorrc.html "Cosimo Cardinal de Torres"] ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 27, 2017</ref>
==Biography== Cosimo de Torres was born to a noble family in Rome, Italy in 1584, the son of Marchis Giovanni de Torres and Giulia Mattei, princess of Papareschi.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> His family was of Spanish descent having moved from Málaga, Spain in the early 16th century.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> His uncles Girolamo Mattei (named cardinal in 1586) and Ludovico de Torres, iuniore (named cardinal in 1606) were also cardinals.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> Torres obtained a doctorate ''in utroque iure'' in canon and civil law from the University of Perugia.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> After school, he was assigned to the college of protonotaries apostolic under the guidance of his uncle, Cardinal Mattei.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> In 1608, he served on the Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature of Justice and of Grace.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres />
On March 17, 1621, he was elected during the papacy of Pope Gregory XV as Titular Archbishop of ''Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto'' with special dispensation for not yet receiving the presbyterate.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On April 25, 1621, he was consecrated bishop in the church of S. Andrea della Valle by Maffeo Barberini, Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Onofrio, with Diofebo Farnese, Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Ulpiano Volpi, Bishop of Novara, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> Giovanni Mascardi, Bishop of Nebbio, was consecrated in the same ceremony.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres />
On May 21, 1621, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XV as Apostolic Nuncio to Poland where he served until December 2, 1622.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On September 5, 1622, he was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Gregory XV in the Consistory of 1622 and installed on March 20, 1623, with the title of Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On May 22, 1623, he was named to the Prefect of the S.C. of the Tridentine Council where he served until 1626.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> He successively served as Abbot of S. Maria di Perno; Abbot of S. Giovanni di Tremisto; and Abbot of S. Nicola di Mamola.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> was As cardinal, he participated in the Conclave of 1623 which elected Pope Urban VIII.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On September 16, 1624, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Perugia.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On January 9, 1634, he was appointed as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals where he served until January 8, 1635.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On April 3, 1634, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Archbishop of Monreale which had previously been occupied by both his grand-uncle Ludovico II de Torres and his uncle Cardinal Ludovico III de Torres.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres /> On July 1, 1641, he was appointed by Pope Urban VIII as Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres />
Torres died on May 1, 1642, in Rome from dropsy and is buried in the church of S. Pancrazio in Rome.<ref name=MirandaCosimodeTorres />
==Episcopal succession== {| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"| ! style="background:#F5DEB3"| <small>Episcopal succession of Cosimo de Torres </small> |- | While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:<ref name=CathHierCosimoTorres /> *Tommaso Carafa, Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino (1623); *Gennaro Filomarino, Bishop of Calvi Risorta (1623); *Pier Luigi Carafa, Bishop of Tricarico (1624); *Giovanni Battista Indelli, Bishop of San Marco (1624); *Antimo degli Atti, Bishop of Ortona a Mare e Campli (1624); *Francesco Traina, Bishop of Agrigento (1627); *Jan Baikowski, Auxiliary Bishop of Poznań and Titular Bishop of ''Aenus'' (1627); *Paul Aldringen, Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg and Titular Bishop of ''Tripolis in Phoenicia'' (1627); *Mikołaj Gabriel Fredro, Bishop of Bacău (1627); *Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Bishop of Capaccio (1627); *Annibale Mascambruno, Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia (1627); *Luis Jiménez, Bishop of Ugento (1627); *Giacomo Marenco, Bishop of Saluzzo (1627); *Gaspar Gajosa, Bishop of L'Aquila (1628); *Zacharie Novowski, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv and Titular Bishop of ''Nicopolis ad Iaterum'' (1634); and the principal co-consecrator of:<ref name=CathHierCosimoTorres /> *Ludovico Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna (1621); and *Agostino Morosini, Titular Archbishop of ''Damascus'' (1621). |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links and additional sources== *{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (Titular See) |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2h04.html |accessdate=}} (for Chronology of Bishops) *{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Titular Metropolitan See of Hadrianopolis in Hæmimonto (Turkey) |publisher=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0062.htm |accessdate=}} (for Chronology of Bishops) *{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dpcdp.html |accessdate=}} (for Chronology of Bishops) *{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve (Italy)|publisher=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/peru0.htm |accessdate=}} (for Chronology of Bishops)
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title = Titular Archbishop of ''Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto'' | years = 1621–1622 | before = Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo | after = Giovanni Benini}} {{succession box | title = Apostolic Nuncio to Poland | years = 1621–1622 | before = Francesco Diotallevi | after = Giovanni Battista Lancellotti}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio | years = 1623–1641 | before = Gabriel Trejo y Paniagua | after = Gaspare Mattei}} {{succession box | title = Prefect of the Congregation of the Council | years = 1623–1626 | before = Roberto Ubaldini | after = Fabrizio Verospi}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Perugia | years = 1624–1634 | before = Napoleone Comitoli | after = Benedetto Ubaldi}} {{succession box | title = Archbishop of Monreale | years = 1634–1642 | before = Jerónimo Venero Leyva | after = Giovanni Torresiglia}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere | years = 1641–1642 | before = Guido Bentivoglio d'Aragona | after = Antonio Marcello Barberini}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Torres, Cosimo de}} Category:17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Sicily Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Gregory XV Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Urban VIII Category:1584 births Category:1642 deaths