Giovanni Stefano Ajazza

{{Short description|Roman Catholic prelate}}

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| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Giovanni Stefano Ajazza

| title = Bishop of Asti

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| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Diocese of Asti

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| term = 1596–1618

| predecessor = Caesar Benzio

| successor = Isidoro Pentorio

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| birth_date = 1550

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| death_date = 1618 (age 68)

| death_place = Asti, Italy

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Giovanni Stefano Ajazza or Giovanni Stefano Agathia or Giovanni Stefano Aiazza (1550–1618) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Asti (1596–1618).{{cite book|url=http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002719&mediaType=application/pdf|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV|pages=98|publisher=|date=|ISBN=|access-date=2022-04-03|archive-date=2018-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004040718/http://sul-derivatives.stanford.edu/derivative?CSNID=00002719&mediaType=application%2Fpdf|url-status=dead}}

Biography

Giovanni Stefano Ajazza was born in Vercellen in 1550.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Giovanni Stefano Ajazza|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baiazza.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On 13 May 1596, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Asti.

He served as Bishop of Asti until his death in 1618.

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