Bishop Gerolamo Melchiori †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Macerata, Italy

Events

Date	Event	Title
6 Mar 1553	Appointed	Bishop of Macerata, Italy
16 Dec 1554	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Macerata, Italy
15 Oct 1571	Appointed	Bishop of Recanati, Italy
1573¹	Resigned	Bishop of Macerata, Italy
1573¹	Resigned	Bishop of Recanati, Italy
1583²	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Macerata, Italy

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Gerolamo Melchiori
Bishop Gerolamo Melchiori
(died 1583)
Bishop Emeritus of Macerata

Event Place
Ordained Bishop Sistine, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

a bishop for 28.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni †
Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ascanio Ferreri †
Bishop Emeritus of Montepeloso
Bishop Giovanni Andrea Croce †
Bishop of Tivoli

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Benedetto Cardinal Lomellini † (1565)
Bishop Giulio Sauli † (1566)
Bishop Ludovico Taverna † (1580)

Event	Place
Ordained Bishop	Sistine, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q61628233

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 231, and Page 281
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1554, Number 18
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 79, Number 6,368

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