Pope Pius VI (r. 1775–1799) created 73 cardinals in 23 consistories.
24 April 1775
Leonardo Antonelli Bernardino de' Vecchi
29 May 1775
Giovanni Carlo Bandi
17 July 1775
Francesco Maria Banditi Ignazio Boncompagni-Ludovisi
13 November 1775
Juan Tomás de Boxadors
15 April 1776
Luigi Valenti Gonzaga, in pectore Giovanni Archinto
20 May 1776
Guido Calcagnini Angelo Maria Durini
23 June 1777
Name Title when named cardinal1. Bernardino Honorati (b. 1724) 2. Marcantonio Marcolini (b. 1721) 3. Guglielmo Pallotta (b. 1727) 4. Gregorio Salviati (b. 1722) 5. Andrea Gioannetti (b. 1722) 6. Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil (b. 1718) 7. Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli (b. 1730) 8. Vincenzo Maria Altieri (b. 1724)
1 June 1778
Name Title when named cardinal1. Francisco Javier Delgado y Venegas (b. 1714) Archbishop of Seville, Spain2. Dominique de La Rochefoucauld (b. 1712) Archbishop of Rouen, France3. Joannes-Henricus de Franckenberg (b. 1726) Archbishop of Mechelen, Austrian Netherlands4. József Batthyány (b. 1727) Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary5. Tommaso Maria Ghilini (b. 1718) Titular Archbishop of Rhodes, Greece6. Carlo Giuseppe Filippa della Martiniana (b. 1724) Bishop of Maurienne, France7. Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan-Guéménée (b. 1734) 8. Fernando de Sousa e Silva (b. 1712) 9. Giovanni Cornaro (b. 1720) 10. Romoaldo Guidi (b. 1722)
12 July 1779
Franziskus Herzan von Harras Alessandro Mattei
11 December 1780
Paolo Francesco Antamori
16 December 1782
Giuseppe Maria Capece Zurlo Raniero Finocchietti
20 September 1784
Giovanni Andrea Archetti
14 February 1785
Giuseppe Garampi Giuseppe Doria Pamphili Vincenzo Ranuzzi Carlo Bellisomi Nicola Colonna di Stigliano Gregorio Barnaba Chiaramonti Muzio Gallo Giovanni de Gregorio Giovanni Maria Riminaldi Paolo Massei Francesco Carrara Ferdinando Spinelli Antonio Maria Doria Pamphilj Carlo Livizzani Forni
18 December 1786
Romualdo Braschi-Onesti
27 January 1787
Filippo Carandini
7 Apri 1788
José Francisco Miguel António de Mendoça
15 December 1788
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne
30 March 1789
Antonino de Sentmenat y Cartellá Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana Ignazio Busca Vittorio Gaetano Costa d'Arignano Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval Joseph Franz Auersperg Stefano Borgia Tommaso Antici Filippo Campanelli
3 August 1789
Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli
26 September 1791
Fabrizio Ruffo
18 June 1792
Giovanni Battista Caprara
21 February 1794
Antonio Dugnani Ippolito Antonio Vincenti Mareri Jean-Sifrein Maury Giovanni Battista Bussi de Pretis Francesco Maria Pignatelli Aurelio Roverella Giovanni Rinuccini Filippo Lancellotti
1 June 1795
Giulio Maria della Somaglia
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