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{{Short description|Italian cardinal}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Cardinal
| honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]]
| name = Giovanni Andrea Archetti
| image = Giovanni Andrea Archetti.jpg
| church = Catholic Church 
| diocese = [[Bishop of Sabina|Sabina]]
| title = [[Bishop of Sabina|Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina]]
| term_start = 2 April 1800
| term_end = 5 November 1805
| created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius VI|Pius VI]]
| cardinal = 20 September 1784
| predecessor = Giovanni Archinto
| successor = Ippolito Antonio Vincenti Mareri
| other_post = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ascoli Piceno|Bishop of Ascoli Piceno]] 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1731|9|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Brescia]], [[Republic of Venice]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1805|11|5|1731|9|11|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Ascoli Piceno|Ascoli]], [[Papal States]]
| previous_post = [[Sant'Eusebio|Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio]] 
 (1784{{nbnd}}1800)
}}

'''Giovanni Andrea Archetti''' (11 September 1731 – 5 November 1805) was an [[italians|Italian]] [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]].

==Biography==
Born in [[Brescia]], [[Lombardy]], Archetti studied canon and civil law in [[La Sapienza]] University of  [[Rome]]. He was ordained priest on 10 September 1775, elected  [[titular see|titular]] [[archbishop]] of Chalcedon (Calcedonia) on the next day, and named [[Apostolic nuncio]] in Poland on September 18, 1775. He was instrumental{{Weasel inline|date=April 2019}} in the failure of the [[Zamoyski Code]].{{Explain|date=April 2019}}

Archetti was made [[cardinal priest]] in the [[Papal consistory|consistory]] of 20 September 1784 by [[Pope Pius VI]], with the title of [[Sant'Eusebio]] and appointed apostolic [[Papal legate|legate]] in [[Bologna]] the following year. He was transferred to the [[Episcopal see|see]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ascoli Piceno|Ascoli Piceno]] with personal title of archbishop on 1 June 1795. He took part in the [[Papal conclave, 1800|Papal conclave of 1799/1800]] in [[Venice]]. On 2 April 1800 he was named [[cardinal bishop]] of the [[suburbicarian diocese]] of [[Bishop of Sabina|Sabina]], retaining the see of Ascoli Piceno.

He died in 1805 in [[Ascoli Piceno|Ascoli]].

==References==
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==Books and articles==
*{{cite book|author1=Archetti, Giovanni Andrea |author2=Ivan Sergejevič Gagarin|title=Un monce du pape à la cour de Catherine II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ct5dAAAAcAAJ|year=1872|publisher=V. Palmè|location=Paris|language=French}}


==External links==
*[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1784.htm#Archetti The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church-The Biographical Dictionary]
*[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/barche.html Catholic Hierarchy data for this cardinal] [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|{{sup|{{small|[''self-published'']}}}}]]

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