Giovanni Stefano Ajazza
{{Short description|Roman Catholic prelate}}
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| 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)
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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.
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External links and additional sources
- {{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Asti |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dasti.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
- {{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Asti (Italy) |publisher=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/asti0.htm |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
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| years = 1596–1618
| before = Caesar Benzio
| after = Isidoro Pentorio}}
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Category:16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
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