Cardinal Braschi is elected to the pontificate…
1775 CE
He is consecrated into the episcopate on February 22, 1775, by Cardinal Gian Francesco Albani and is crowned that same day by the Cardinal Protodeacon Alessandro Albani.
Pius VI first opens a jubilee his predecessor had convoked and it initiates the 1775 Jubilee Year.
The new pope elevates Romualdo Braschi-Onesti as the penultimate cardinal-nephew.
The earlier acts of Pius VI give fair promise of reformist rule and tackle the problem of corruption in the Papal States.
Though he is usually benevolent, Pius VI sometimes shows discrimination.
He had appointed his uncle Giovanni Carlo Bandi as Bishop of Imola in 1752, then as a member of the Roman Curia, cardinal in the consistory on May 29, 1775, but does not proffer any other members of his family.
He reprimands prince Potenziani, the governor of Rome, for failing to adequately deal with corruption in the city, appoints a council of cardinals to remedy the state of the finances and relieve the pressure of imposts, calls to account Nicolò Bischi for the spending of funds intended for the purchase of grain, reduces the annual disbursements by denying pensions to many prominent people, and adopts a reward system to encourage agriculture.
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