Alessandro Musotti

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Alessandro Musotti

| title = Bishop of Imola

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| diocese = Diocese of Imola

| term = 1579–1607

| predecessor = Vincenzo Ercolano

| successor = Giovanni Garzia Mellini

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| death_date = 23 January 1607

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Alessandro Musotti (died 23 January 1607) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Imola (1579–1607).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/212/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|authorlink=Konrad Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=213|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second|ISBN=}} (in Latin){{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/208/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=209|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|ISBN=}} (in Latin)

Biography

On 9 December 1579, Alessandro Musotti was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Imola.{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Bishop Alessandro Musotti |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmusotti.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

He served as Bishop of Imola until his death on 23 January 1607.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Silvio Savelli (cardinal), Archbishop of Rossano (1582).

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External links and additional sources

{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Imola |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dimol.html|accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Imola (Italy) |publisher=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/imol0.htm |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS

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| title = Bishop of Imola

| years = 1579–1607

| before = Vincenzo Ercolano

| after = Giovanni Garzia Mellini}}

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Category:16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops

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