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Gaspare Cenci

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Predecessor
  
Alessandro Ruffino

In office
  
1574-1590

Successor
  
Orazio Celsi

Consecration
  
12 March 1574 by Giulio Antonio Santorio

Diocese
  
Roman Catholic Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

Gaspare Cenci was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla (1574-1590).

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Biography

On 8 January 1574, Gaspare Cenci was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla. On 12 Mar 1574, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Antonio Santorio, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, with Giovanni Battista Santorio, Bishop of Alife, and Giuseppe Pamphilj, Bishop of Segni, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla until his resignation in 1590.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

  • Giovanni Battista Castrucci, Archbishop of Chieti (1585);
  • Gian Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini, Bishop of Acqui (1585);
  • Marcantonio Bizzoni, Bishop of Foligno (1586); and
  • Lorenzo Celsi (bishop), Bishop of Castro del Lazio (1591).

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