Pier Paolo Crescenzi

Pier Paolo Crescenzi (1572 – 19 February 1645) was an Italian Catholic cardinal.

[1][2] He was educated at the University of Perugia and earned a doctorate in utroque iure (Civil and Canon Law).

[3] Very little is known about Crescenzi's early life, but on 17 August 1611 he was elevated to cardinal and installed as Cardinal-Priest of Ss.

[4] On 15 Jul 1612, he was consecrated bishop by Bonifazio Caetani, Bishop of Cassano all'Jonio, with Fabio Biondi, Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Galeazzo Sanvitale, Archbishop Emeritus of Bari-Canosa, serving as co-consecrators.

In 1644, he was made Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals and helped to preside over the Papal conclave of 1644, but died several months later on 19 February 1645.