Fausto Malari

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Fausto Malari

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| diocese = Diocese of Chiusi

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| term = 1602–1608

| predecessor = Ludovico Martelli

| successor = Orazio Spannocchi

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| consecration = 5 May 1602

| consecrated_by = Camillo Borghese

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| death_date = 1608

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Fausto Malari or Fausto Molari or Fausto Mellari (died 1608) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Chiusi (1602–1608).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/154|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|language=Latin|pages=154–155|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}}

Biography

Malari was a native of Siena.{{cite book|author=Giuseppe Cappelletti|title=Le chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gbc-AAAAcAAJ|volume=decimosettimo|year=1862|publisher=Antonelli|location=Venezia|language=Italian|page=602}}

He is attested as Vicar General of the Archbishop of Siena in 1592 and again in 1596.{{cite book|author1=Henry Méchoulan|author2=Antonio Rotondò|title=La Formazione storica della alterità: studi di storia della tolleranza nell'età moderna offerti a Antonio Rotondò|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrTYAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=L.S. Olschki|location=Firenze|language=Italian|page=391|isbn=9788822250575 }}

On 22 April 1602, Fausto Malari was appointed Bishop of Chiusi by Pope Clement VIII.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Fausto Malari (Molari, Mellari) |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmalari.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On 5 May 1602, he was consecrated bishop by Camillo Borghese, Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono, with Guglielmo Bastoni, Bishop of Pavia, and Horace Capponi, Bishop of Carpentras, serving as co-consecrators.

He served as Bishop of Chiusi until his death in 1608.

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