Antonio Eugenio Visconti

Antonio Eugenio Visconti (17 June 1713 – 4 March 1788) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of the Catholic Church.

Antonio Eugenio Visconti was born in Milan on 17 June 1713, the son of Annibale Visconti, a fieldmarshall of the Holy Roman Empire, and the noblewoman Claudia Erba-Odescalchi, a relative of Pope Innocent XI.

He completed his studies at the University of Pavia where he obtained his doctorate in utroque iure[1] on 19 December 1737.

[1] Administrator of the Hospital of San Gallo in Rome, he became a priest of the Archconfraternity of the Pilgrims and of the Carmine, and held a position as well with the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.

He took the sacred orders on 22 December 1759 and on 28 January 1760 he was chosen titular archbishop of Ephesus, being consecrated a bishop on 28 June by Pope Clement XIII.