On December 8, 1793, Pope Pius VI confirmed Graessel coadjutor bishop and titular bishop of 'Samosata,' not knowing Graessel had died.
On a trip to Naples he passed through Rome and saw Antonio Canova's funeral monument to Pope Pius VI, which influenced his style in a classical direction.
His apostolic courage and his constancy in these trials elicited solemn eulogies from both Pope Pius VI and Pope Pius VII.
After the Order of the Jesuits was terminated by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, he settled in Rome under the papacy of Pope Pius VI.
Luigi Braschi Onesti (1745 – 1816), duca di Nemi, was a nephew of Pope Pius VI, who granted him his dukedom.
This Mass was written in honor of St. Bernard of Offida, a Capuchin monk who devoted himself to helping the poor; a century after the monk's death, he was beatified by Pope Pius VI.
In 1798, Pope Pius's predecessor Pope Pius VI had been forced into exile when French troops invaded the Vatican and stole or destroyed all the ancient papal tiaras owned by the Holy See.
In 1789, Pope Pius VI created the first Catholic diocese in the United States, the Diocese of Baltimore.
Master Pere Ferro had a good reputation and had previously been employed by Pope Pius VI to work on the renovations of cathedral of Santa Maria de Eivissa in the capital.
On June 17, 1777 the Eparchy of Križevci is permanently established by Pope Pius VI with see at Križevci, near Zagreb, thus forming the Croatian Greek Catholic Church which would after the World War I include other people; Rusyns and Ukrainians of Yugoslavia.
In 1792 Hippisley returned to Italy and remained there until 1795, during which time he served as a semi-official representative of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger at the Court of Pope Pius VI.
The French government that supported the United Irish had engaged in a policy of "dechristianisation" for some years, and in February 1798 its army had expelled Pope Pius VI from Rome and formed the short-lived "Roman Republic".
Pope Pius VI, 17 May 1800 placed an interdict on the churches that had been desecrated by the deistic rites, and Cardinal Consalvi, in the course of the negotiations regarding the Concordat of 1801, demanded that a speedy end be put to the profanation of the Catholic temples.
Pope John Paul II | Pope Benedict XVI | Pope | Pope Paul VI | Alexander Pope | Pope Pius IX | Pope Pius XII | Pope Francis | Pope Leo XIII | Pope Pius XI | Pope John XXIII | Pope Innocent IV | Pope Pius VII | Pope Pius X | Pope John Paul I | Pope Alexander III | Pope Clement VII | Pope Urban VIII | Pope Clement V | Pope Pius VI | Pope Julius II | Pope Gregory VII | Pope Clement VIII | pope | Pope Sixtus V | Pope Alexander VI | Pope Benedict XIV | Pope Benedict XV | Pope Innocent XI | Pope Sixtus IV |
Pope Pius VI sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on February 19, 1797; but on December 28 of that year, in a riot blamed by papal forces on some Italian and French revolutionists, the popular brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, who had gone to Rome with Joseph Bonaparte as part of the French embassy, was killed and a new pretext was furnished for invasion.
Chiaramonti was born at Cesena, the son of Count Scipione Chiaramonti; his mother, Giovanna, was the daughter of the Marquess Ghini and through her the future Pope Pius VII was related to the Braschi family, the family of Pope Pius VI.