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S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 158 1668. He was born in 1615. After completing studies at a Je- suit college in Rome, he became prelate of Rome during the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII. In the fall of 1652, he was made Apostolic Nuncio in France and received the title of the Archbishop of Larissa. He remained in France until 1660. He then served as Apostolic Nuncio in Warsaw for eight years, after which Pope Clement IX transferred him to the imperial court in Vienna. In 1673, he became Secretary of the Sacred Con- gregation for Bishops and Religious. In 1675, he was nomi- nated Maestro di Camera . In 1681, he became cardinal and somewhat later Archbishop of Naples. On July 12, 1691, he was elected to the See of Peter and assumed the name of Inno- cent XII. V. Meysztowicz, De Archivio Nunzjaturae Varsavien- sis , Vaticani 1944, Tabl. I; L. von Pastor, Storia dei Papi della fine del MedioEvo , vol. XIV, P. II, Romae 1932, pp. 419-422; ECat VII, 2526. 209. Elementa ad Fontium Editiones , VII, Romae, 1962, nn. 439, 461, 468, 470, 471, 478; Konopczynski, op. cit., vol. II, 51, 53. 210. Positio 78. 211. Ibid., 67. 212. Ibid., 63. 213. Kraus 5, Positio 290. 214. Positio 84; ibid., 119-126. 215. “Theologicam Doctrinam tam bene collebat, ut [...] Dignis- simus Praesul Pignatelli, qui eo tempore Nuntii Apostolici munere fungebatur, et postea ad Summum Pontificatum sub Nomine Innocentii XII sublimari promeruerit, eundem in suumConfessarium, cui mirum in modum deferebat, elegerit.” PP f. 58r.