Alfonso Gesualdo
Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540–14 February 1603) was an Italian Cardinal, from 1561. He was from Naples. His attendance at the papal conclave of 1565-6 at the age of only 25 makes him one of the youngest Cardinals ever to participate in a papal election.[1]
He was archbishop of Conza in 1564, bishop of Albano in 1583, bishop of Frascati in 1587, bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1589, bishop of Ostia in 1591, archbishop of Naples in 1596.
He was a patron of Sant'Andrea della Valle, in Rome, the mother church of the Theatine Order.[2] The composer Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.
Episcopal succession
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[3]
- Salvatore Caracciolo, Archbishop of Conza (1572);
- Marcantonio Pescara, Archbishop of Conza (1574);
- Silvio de Sainte-Croix, Archbishop of Arles (1574);
- Ippolito Aldobrandini (seniore), Pope of Rome (1592);
- Filippo Spinelli, Titular Bishop of Colossae and Coadjutor Bishop of Policastro (1592);
- Marco Magnacervo, Bishop of Lucera (1593);
- Vincenzo Giustiniani, Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1593);
- Basilio Pignatelli, Bishop of L'Aquila (1593);
- Annibale D'Afflitto, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (1593);
- Cesare Del Pezzo, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona (1593);
- Benedetto Mandina, Bishop of Caserta (1594); and
- Juan de Castro, Archbishop of Taranto (1600).
Notes
- ↑ Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Consistory of February 26, 1561 (II)"
- ↑ Marcia B. Hall, Rome (2005), p. 303.
- ↑ "Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017
External links
- Biography
- Catholic Hierarchy page [self-published]
- (in Italian) Biography
- (in Italian) Biography
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