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Antonio Pucci (born 8 October 1485 in Firenze – 12 October 1544 in Bagnoregio) was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.^[1]

Antonio Pucci emanated from the Florentine noble family of Pucci. He was a nephew of Cardinals Roberto Pucci and Lorenzo Pucci.

On March 7, 1510, the feast of St. Thomas, Pucci delivered the annual encomium in honor of the "angelic doctor" for the Santa Maria sopra Minerva studium generale, the future Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.^[2]

After Antonio Pucci participated in the Fifth Council of the Lateran (1512–1517), he served as Nuncio in Switzerland from 1517 to 1521. From 1518 he was bishop of Pistoia.^[3] From 1529 to 1541 Pucci was bishop of Vannes. Since 1 October 1529 he was Penitentiary major.

Pucci was appointed Cardinal by Pope Clement VII on 22 September 1531.^[4] His titular church was Santi Quattro Coronati. He participated in the papal conclave of 1534 that elected Pope Paul III. Pucci later became bishop of the suburbicarian dioceses of Albano (1542/43) and of Sabina (1543/44).

Episcopal succession edit

Episcopal succession of Antonio Pucci

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:^[5]

Onofrio Bartolini de' Medici, Archbishop of Pisa (1531);
Giannotto Pucci, Bishop of Melfi (1531);
Vincenzo Durante, Bishop of Orvieto (1531);
Meday, (1535);
Pierre Van Der Worst, Bishop of Acqui (1535);
Nicolás de Aragón, Bishop of Bosa (1537);
Giovanni Maria Canigiani, Titular Bishop of Hippos and Auxiliary Bishop of Pistoia (1540);
Jan Wilamowski, Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi (1540); and

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^ Cinelli, Luciano. "I panegirici in onore di s. Tommaso d'Aquino alla Minerva nel XV secolo, "Memorie Domenicane" N.S. 30 (1999), pp. 19-146 [recensito su Medioevo latino XXII (2001), n. 4538]". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
^ New Advent website, Diocese of Pistoia and Prato
^ Florida International University website, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Biographical Dictionary Pope Clement VII (1523-1534)
^ Cheney, David M. "Antonio Cardinal Pucci". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved February 14, 2019. ^{[self-published]}

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(in German) Pucci, Antonio. Historic Lexicon of Switzerland.