Mario Theodoli

{{Short description|Catholic cardinal}} {{one source|date=August 2018}}{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | name = Mario Theodoli | title = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo | church = Catholic Church | see = Santa Maria del Popolo | term = 28 January 1649 – 27 June 1650 | predecessor = Lelio Falconieri | successor = Fabio Chigi | previous_post = Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Alessio (1643-1649) Bishop of Imola (1644-1646) | consecration = 27 December 1644 | consecrated_by = Ciriaco Rocci | cardinal = 13 July 1643 | created_cardinal_by = Pope Urban VIII | birth_date = {{birth year|1601}} | birth_place = Rome, Papal States | death_date = {{death date and age|1650|6|27|1601|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Papal States }}[[image:S maria del popolo, chapel ceiling.jpg|thumb|The roof of the Theodoli chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo with the frescoes by Giulio Mazzoni.]]

'''Mario Theodoli''' (1601 – 27 June 1650) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal.

==Biography== Theodoli was born 1601 in Rome, the son of Teodolo Theodoli, Marquis of San Vito, and his wife Flavia Fani. He was an ancestor of Cardinal Augusto Theodoli and a relative of Gerolamo Theodoli. At a very young age he studied law and entered the service of the Church.

He was appointed Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signatura of ''Justice and of Grace'' and proved himself a capable administrator. He was named Governor in a succession of comunes and towns including:<ref name=MirandaMarioTheo>{{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=THEODOLI, Mario (1601-1650)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1643.htm#Theodoli |work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=29 February 2016|publisher=Florida International University|oclc=53276621}}</ref> Terni (1626), Cesena (1627–1628), Orvieto (1628–1629), Camerino (1630), Ancona (1631–1633), and Viterbo (1633–1634).

In 1638, he bought, as was the custom at the time, a clericate in the Apostolic Chamber and in 1642 he was appointed ''Protonotary apostolic participantium'' and ordinary judge of the Roman Curia.

He was elevated to cardinal by Pope Urban VIII in 1643 and was made Cardinal-Priest at the Basilica of Santi Bonifacio e Alessio that same year. Pope Urban died in 1644 and Theodoli participated in the Papal conclave of 1644 which elected Pope Innocent X. In the absence of Cardinal Alessandro Bichi, Theodoli was appointed Minister of France before the Holy See.

Theodoli was elected Bishop of Imola in 1644 and was consecrated by Cardinal Ciriaco Rocci, Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro, with Alfonso Gonzaga, Titular Archbishop of ''Rhodus'' and Giacomo Theodoli, Bishop of Forlì, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierMarTheo>{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Mario ''Cardinal'' Theodoli |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btheom.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> he resigned the government of the diocese because of ill health in 1646 and was transferred to the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo which housed the Theodoli family chapel. He died on 27 June 1650.

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Hyacinthe Serroni, Bishop of Orange (1647).<ref name=CathHierMarTheo />

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{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Alessio | years = 1643–1649 | before = Giovanni Francesco Guidi di Bagno | after = Luigi Omodei (seniore)}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Imola | years = 1644–1646 | before = Ferdinando Millini | after = Marco Antonio Coccini}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo | years = 1649–1650 | before = Lelio Falconieri | after = Fabio Chigi}} {{s-end}}

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