Giulio Spinola

Giulio Spinola (13 May 1612 – 11 March 1691) was a Genoese Roman Catholic cardinal.

Biography
He was born in Genoa, the eldest of nine children to Giovambatista and Isabella Spinola. He obtained doctorates in Law (1636) and Theology, and held some administrative offices during the pontificate of Urban VIII.

He was named Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia on 14 January 1658. On 10 Feb 1658, he was consecrated bishop by Girolamo Boncompagni, Archbishop of Bologna, with Tommaso Carafa, Bishop of Capaccio, and Bartolomeo Cresconi, Bishop of Caserta, serving as co-consecrators. He was Nuncio to Naples, and then Nuncio to Austria. He was created Cardinal on 15 February 1666 by Alexander VII, and was later appointed to the Diocese of Nepi e Sutri, and later to Lucca.

He resigned from his diocese in 1690 for health reasons and retired to Rome. He died on 11 March 1691 during the papal conclave.

Episcopal succession
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of: • Casimirus Damokos, Titular Bishop of Coronea and Vicar Apostolic of Transilvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen (1668);

• Virginio Orsini (cardinal), Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1671);

• Luca Tisbia, Bishop of Trevico (1671);

• Giovanni Geronimo Doria, Bishop of Nebbio (1671);

• Giovanni Battista Falvo, Bishop of Marsico Nuovo (1671);

• Giovanni Battista Desio, Bishop of Venosa (1674); and

• Raffaele Riario Di Saono, Bishop of Montepeloso (1674).