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Galeazzo Sanvitale

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Predecessor
  
Bonviso Bonvisi

Died
  
1622

In office
  
1604-1606

Successor
  
Decio Caracciolo Rosso

Consecration
  
4 April 1604 by Girolamo Bernerio

Archdiocese
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bari-Bitonto

Galeazzo Sanvitale (died 8 September 1622) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archdiocese of Bari (-Canosa) (1604-1606).

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Biography

Galeazzo Sanvitale was born in Parma, Italy in 1566. On 15 March 1604, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Archdiocese of Bari (-Canosa). On 4 April 1604, he was consecrated bishop in the chapel of the Apostolic Sacristy, Rome by Girolamo Bernerio, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, with Claudio Rangoni, Bishop of Piacenza, and Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia, Bishop of Castro del Lazio, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Bari (-Canosa) until his resignation in 1606. He died on 8 September 1622.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:

  • Ludovico Ludovisi, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina (1621). Through Sanvitale’s episcopal consecration of Ludovico Ludovisi, he is part of the episcopal lineage of Pope Francis and most other modern bishops.

    • He was also the principal co-consecrator of:

    References

    Galeazzo Sanvitale Wikipedia
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