Pier Matteo Petrucci

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His Eminence Pier Matteo Petrucci
Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello
Church	Catholic Church
In office	1687–1701
Predecessor	Federico Baldeschi Colonna
Successor	Gianalberto Badoer
Orders
Consecration	20 April 1681 by Alderano Cibo
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	20 May 1636 Jesi, Italy
Died	5 July 1701 (1701-07-06) (aged 65)

Pier Matteo Petrucci, C.O. (1636–1701) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Pier Matteo Petrucci was a priest and a philosophy professor. Together with Cardinal Alderano Cibo, he founded an institute for runaway children. In 1678, he became a superior of his Order. On 20 April 1681 he was consecrated bishop by Alderano Cibo, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati in Jesi. Giacomo Altoviti, Titular Patriarch of Antiochia, and Odoardo Cibo, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria were serving as co-consecrators.^[1] Pope Innocent XI made him a cardinal on 2 September 1686.

His works on mysticism and spirituality were criticized by the Jesuit Paolo Segneri. In 1688, the Inquisition banned his Quietistic writings about the passive resignation of the soul to God for being heretically mystical. Oddly enough, a treatise for women authored by the cardinal was still translated for English Protestants.^[2]

Petrucci participated at the conclaves of 1689 (election of Alexander VIII), 1691 (election of Innocent XII), and 1700 (election of Clement XI). He was Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church in 1694–95.

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:^[3]