Giulio Mattei
{{short description|17th-century Catholic bishop}}
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| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend
| name = Giulio Mattei
| title = Bishop of Bitetto
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| church = Catholic Church
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| diocese = Roman Catholic Diocese of Bitetto
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| term = 1611–1624
| predecessor = Livio Limatola
| successor = Michael Masserotti
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| consecration = 23 May 1611
| consecrated_by = Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino
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| birth_date = 1561
| birth_place = Monte San Savini, Italy
| death_date = 1624 (age 63)
| death_place = Bitetto, Italy
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| nationality = Italian
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Giulio Mattei (1561–1624) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Bitetto (1611–1624).{{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=115|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} (in Latin)[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/db533.html "Diocese of Bitetto"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 15, 2016[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t0320.htm "Titular Episcopal See of Bitetto"] GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
Biography
Giulio Mattei was born in Monte San Savini, Italy in 1561.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M. |title=Bishop Giulio Mattei| website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmatteigu.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}}{{self-published source|date=August 2019}} On 18 May 1611, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Bitetto. On 23 May, he was consecrated bishop by Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, Cardinal-Priest of San Matteo in Merulana, with Attilio Amalteo, Titular Archbishop of Athenae, and Antonio d'Aquino, Bishop of Sarno, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Bitetto until his death in 1624.
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| years = 1611–1624
| before = Livio Limatola
| after = Michael Masserotti}}
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Category:17th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Paul V
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