Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil
…poor. In March of that same year, Gerdil was appointed the bishop of the titular see of Dibona, and was consecrated at the Barnabite church by Cardinal Marcantonio Colonna, the Vicar General of Rome. The following June, he again named a cardinal in petto by Pope Pius, receiving the red hat on 18 December 1777 and the…