Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni
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Jesuit theologian and controversialist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni was a Jesuit theologian and controversialist. Life He entered the Society of Jesus on 31 October 1747, taught theology and philosophy in Macerata, and was a member of the Society when it was suppressed by Clement XIV. Henceforth he devoted himself to theological argument, and in recognition of his signal services against Jansenism and Josephinism, Pius IV appointed him Theologian-Penitentiary, an office of which he was deprived by Pius VII on account of the Jacobin principles he tolerated and advocated during the occupation of Rome by Napoleon I.
