Alessandro Egizio

{{short description|17th-century Italian Catholic bishop}}

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Alessandro Egizio

| title = Bishop of Andria

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| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Diocese of Andria

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| term = 1657–1689

| predecessor = Ascanio Cassiani

| successor = Pietro Vecchia (bishop)

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| birth_date = 1597

| birth_place = Minervino, Italy

| death_date = April 1689 (age 92)

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Alessandro Egizio (1597–1689) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Andria (1657–1689).

Biography

Alessandro Egizio was born in Minervino, Italy in 1597.

On 17 December 1657, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Andria. He served as Bishop of Andria until his death in April 1689.

References

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{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Bishop Alessandro Egizio |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/begizio.html|access-date=February 14, 2019}} Wikipedia:SPS

{{cite book|url=http://www.archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/82/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=83|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} (in Latin)

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