Angelo Picchetti

{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic prelate}}

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Angelo Picchetti

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| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Diocese of Nusco

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| term = 1662–1668

| predecessor = Benedetto Rocci

| successor = Fulgenzio Arminio Monforte

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| birth_date = 1591

| birth_place = Monticelli, Italy

| death_date = 28 September 1668 (age 77)

| death_place = Nusco, Italy

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Angelo Picchetti (1591–1668) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nusco (1662–1668).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV|pages=263|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} (in Latin)

Biography

Angelo Picchetti was born in Monticelli,{{refn|Several places in Italy are or have been called Monticelli. One source reports that Picchetti owned a villa at Monte San Biagio (called Monticelli or Monte Celio in his time),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhMeDQAAQBAJ&q=piccolini+ricorda+come+nel+XVII+secolo&pg=PA41 |title=La battaglia dimenticata. Monte Celio, 12 aprile 1498 |first=Pierluigi Romeo |last=Di Colloredo Mels |page=42 |date=17 August 2016 |publisher=Soldiershop |language=Italian |isbn= 9788896519974 |access-date=23 June 2017}} and it is possible that that was also his birthplace.}} Italy in 1591.{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Angelo Picchetti|publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpicche.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On 16 January 1662, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Nusco.

He served as Bishop of Nusco until his death on 28 September 1668.

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