Agostino Oreggi

Agostino Oreggi
cardinal priestofS. Sisto
Church	Catholic Church
See	Archbishop of Benevento
Appointed	28 November 1633
Term ended	12 July 1635
Predecessor	Alessandro di Sangro
Successor	Vincenzo Maculani
Orders
Consecration	31 December 1633 (Bishop) byAntonio Marcello Barberini
Created cardinal	28 November 1633 byPope Urban VIII
Personal details
Born	1577(1577) Santa Sofia, Italy,
Died	July 12, 1635(1635-07-12)(aged 57–58) Benevento
Buried	Benevento Cathedral

Agostino Oreggi(1577 – 12 July 1635) was aCatholictheologianandcardinal.As personal theologian ofPope Urban VIII,he was involved in theGalileo affair.

Life

Agostino Oreggi was born in 1577 in the little town ofSanta Sofia,in theGrand Duchy of Tuscanynear the borders withRomagna.His parents were fromBironicoin thecantonofTicinoinSwitzerland.He moved to Rome in 1594 for studying. With the support of CardinalRoberto Bellarminohe graduated inphilosophyandtheologyin theCollegio Romanoheld by theJesuits,and he earned also adoctorate in utroque iure.He became the "personal theologian" of Card Bellarmino.

In 1605, already apriest,Oreggi moved toFaenzawhere he taught and entered in contact withMaffeo Barberini,Cardinal legateof the nearBolognafrom 1611 to 1614.He remained in service of Maffeo Barberini as his almoner and theologian.

A turning point in the life of Agostino Oreggi was the elevation of Maffeo Barberini to the papacy asPope Urban VIIIin August 1623. In January 1624 he became Consultor (judge) of theHoly Officeand member of theCongregation of the Council.He worked with his colleagues ofCongregation of Propaganda Fidein publishing a rebuttal ofIslamicdoctrine in 1625 and in 1630 to permit theJesuitsto evangelize Japan.In 1633 he was part of a committee that studied a reshape of thediocesesin Irland, due to the persecutions suffered by the Catholics there.

Oreggi, together withMelchior Inchoferand Zaccaria Pasqualigo, studied theDialogue Concerning the Two Chief World SystemsofGalileo Galilei,and certified that, with the publishing of such book, Galileo did violate the order received in 1616 not to hold, teach, or defend that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves.

Oreggi was createdcardinal priestwith the title ofS. Sistoin the consistory of 28 November 1633, and on the same day he was appointedArchbishop of Benevento.He died inBeneventoon 12 July 1635 and was buried in thatcathedral.

Works

Among Oreggi's works are:De Deo uno tractatus primo(1629);De individuo sacratissimae Trinitatis mysterio;De angelis;De opere sex dierum,a study on the first five days of creation supporting the idea that the knowledge of the man about the physical reality is uncertain;De sacrosancto incarnationis mysterio;Aristotelis vera de rationalis animae immortalitate sententia(1631), about the orthodoxy of theAristotle's doctrine on the human soul.