Giambattista Rubini

Giambattista Rubini (1642 – 17 February, 1707) was a Catholic cardinal from 1690 to 1707.

Giambattista Rubini was born in Venice in 1642, the second son of Donato Rubini and Cristina Medici. His grandmother, Cristina Ottoboni, was the sister of Pope Alexander VIII.

He was educated at the University of Padua, becoming a doctor of both laws.

He became a canon of Padua Cathedral at an early age. After law school, he moved to Rome to become Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura. He later became governor of the cities of Fabriano, Spoleto, Frosinone, Viterbo, and Macerata. He then went on to be governor of the Campagne and Maritime Province, Umbria, and the March of Ancona.

Rubini received the minor orders on September 10, 1683; became a subdeacon on September 12, 1683; and was made a deacon on September 19, 1683. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 21, 1683.

On May 15, 1684, the cathedral chapter of Vicenza Cathedral elected him to be Bishop of Vicenza. He was consecrated as a bishop by Cardinal Alessandro Crescenzi on May 21, 1684.

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