Gregory XV
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Pope Gregory XV |
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| Papacy began | 9 February 1621 |
| Papacy ended | 8 July 1623 |
| Predecessor | Paul V |
| Successor | Urban VIII |
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| Consecration | 1 May 1612 by Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli-Borghese |
| Created Cardinal | 19 September 1616 by Pope Paul V |
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| Birth name | Alessandro Ludovisi |
| Born | 9 January 1554 Bologna, Papal States |
| Died | 8 July 1623 (aged 69) Rome, Papal States |
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Papal styles of Pope Gregory XV |
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| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | None |
Pope Gregory XV (Latin: Gregorius XV; 9 January 1554 – 8 July 1623), born Alessandro Ludovisi, was Pope from 9 February 1621 to his death in 1623.
Alessandro Ludovisi was born in Bologna in 1554 to Pompeo Ludovisi, the Count of Samoggia (now Savigno in the Province of Bologna) and of Camilla Bianchini. He was one of seven children and was born as the third child.
He was educated at the Roman College run by the Society of Jesus in Rome and he then went to the University of Bologna to get degrees in canon and Roman law which he received on June 4, 1575. His early career was as a papal jurist in Rome, and there is no evidence that he had been ordained to the priesthood.
He returned to Rome in 1575 and he served as the Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura from 1593 to 1596 and was appointed as the Vicegerent of Rome in 1597, a position he maintained until 1598. He also served as the Auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota from 1599 to 1612.
On 12 March 1612, Pope Paul V appointed him as the Archbishop of Bologna, for which he was presumably ordained to the priesthood and then he was consecrated a bishop on 1 May of that year in the church of San Andrea al Quirinale in Rome.
In August 1616, the pope sent him as Apostolic Nuncio to the Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and Philip III of Spain in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate of Montferrat.
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