Early Life
Caprara was born at Bologna on 29 May 1733 to Count Francesco Raimondo Montecuccoli and Countess Maria Vittoria Caprara. He took his surname from the latter. He studied at the Collegio Nazareno in Rome and earned a doctorate in utroque iure at the Sapienza University of Rome on 23 September 1755.
Having entered the ecclesiastical state, he was appointed in 1755 referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature and vice-legate of Ravenna from 1758 to 1761. Appointed titular archbishop of Iconio on 1 December 1766, he was consecrated bishop in the Quirinal Palace on 8 December 1766 by Pope Clement XIII.
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