Antonio Maria Graziani

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

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Antonio Maria Graziani

| title = Bishop of Amelia

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| image = Antonio Maria Graziani by Domenico Tintoretto.jpg

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| caption = Portrait by Domenico Tintoretto (1598)

| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Roman Catholic Diocese of Amelia

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| term = 1592–1611

| predecessor = Giovanni Antonio Lazzari

| successor = Antonio Maria Franceschini

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| consecration = 25 Feb 1592

| consecrated_by = Antonmaria Sauli

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| birth_date = 1537

| birth_place = Sansepolcro, Italy

| death_date = 1 Apr 1611 (age 74)

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Antonio Maria Graziani (1537–1611) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Amelia (1592–1611) and Apostolic Nuncio to Venice (1596–1598).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/80/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|author-link=Konrad Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=81|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} (in Latin){{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/106/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=106|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster}} (in Latin)

Biography

Antonio Maria Graziani was born in 1537 in Sansepolcro, Italy.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Antonio Maria Graziani |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgrazam.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} On 17 Feb 1592, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Amelia. On 25 Feb 1592, he was consecrated bishop by Antonmaria Sauli, Cardinal-Priest of San Vitale, with Fabio Biondi, Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Fantino Petrignani, Archbishop Emeritus of Cosenza, serving as co-consecrators. On 23 Feb 1596, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Apostolic Nuncio to Venice; he resigned from the position on 8 Oct 1598. He served as Bishop of Amelia until his death on 1 Apr 1611.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Roberto Pierbenedetti, Bishop of Nocera Umbra (1592).

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