Giuseppe Firrao, Jr.

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**Cardinal Giuseppe Firrao, Jr.**
Church positions

See	Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars Emeritus
Title	Cardinal priest of Sant'Eusebio
Period in office	1795-1815
Successor	Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata
Previous post	Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palaestina
Created cardinal
Personal
Date of birth	July 20, 1736(1736-07-20)
Place of birth	Fagnano Castello, Calabria, Italy
Date of death	January 24, 1830 (aged 93)
Place of death	Naples, Italy

Giuseppe Firrao (July 20, 1736 — January 24, 1830) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal.

Born in Fagnano Castello, Calabria to Pier Maria Firrao, Prince of Sant'Agata and of Luzi, and Livia Grillo di Agapito, Duchess of Mondragone and Countess of Carinola. He studied his first studies in Naples, then studied humanities at Collegio Nazareno and later completed a doctorate in canon and civil law at La Sapienza University, Rome. He received the minor orders in the period 1775-1782 and was ordained as a priest on March 16, 1782.

On February 25, 1782 Firrao was elected titular archbishop of Petra in Palaestina and appointed nuncio in Venice on April 8, 1782. From 1795 year became secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars.

Pope Pius VII created him cardinal in the consistory of February 23, 1801 with the title of Sant'Eusebio. In the period of 1802 - 1803 he was made Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals and First Priest of the same high eclessiastical body 1823 - 1830. He took part of the Papal conclave, 1823 and in the next conclave in 1829.

Cardinal Firrao died in Naples and buried in the metropolitan cathedral.