Leonardo Balsarini

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| term = 1698–1699

| predecessor = Francesco Martelli

| successor = Angelo Maria Carlini

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| consecration = 24 June 1668

| consecrated_by = Cesare Facchinetti

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| birth_date = 1636

| birth_place = Chios, Greece

| death_date = December 1699 (aged 63)

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Leonardo Balsarini (1636 – December 1699) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Latin Archbishop of Corinth (1698–1699), Roman Catholic Bishop of Chios (1686–1698), and Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Arabia (1668–1686).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV|pages=149|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|ISBN=}} (in Latin){{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V|pages=158, 173, 267, and 313|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|ISBN=}} (in Latin)[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbalsarl.html "Archbishop Leonardo Balsarini"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dchio.html "Diocese of Chios (Scio)"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/chio1.htm "Diocese of Chios"] GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016

Biography

Leonardo Balsarini was born in Chios, Greece in 1636. On 14 May 1668, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement IX as Coadjutor Roman Catholic Bishop of Chios and Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Arabia. On 24 June 1668, he was consecrated bishop by Cesare Facchinetti, Bishop of Spoleto, with Giacomo Altoviti, Titular Patriarch of Antiochia, and Stefano Brancaccio, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto, serving as co-consecrators.

In March 1686, he succeeded to the bishopric of Chios. On 19 December 1698, he resigned as Bishop of Chios and was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Latin Archbishop of Corinth.

He died in December 1699.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Nikola Bijanković, Bishop of Makarska (1699).