Lucio Maranta

{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic prelate}}

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Lucio Maranta

| title = Bishop of Montepeloso

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| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Diocese of Montepeloso

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| term = 1578–1592

| predecessor = Vincenzo Ferrari

| successor = Gioia Dragomani

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| death_date = 1592

| death_place = Montepeloso, Italy

| previous_post = Bishop of Lavello (1561–1578)

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Lucio Maranta or Bishop Luca Maranta (died 1592) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Montepeloso (1578–1592){{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/248/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|author-link=Konrad Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=249|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} (in Latin) and Bishop of Lavello (1561–1578).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol03eube#page/220/mode/2up|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|author-link=Konrad Eubel|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume=III|pages=220–221|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} (in Latin)

Biography

On 31 January 1561, Lucio Maranta was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius IV as Bishop of Lavello.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmarantal.html "Bishop Lucio Maranta"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 4, 2017 Wikipedia:SPS{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Bishop Lucio Maranta |website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/irsi0.htm#55405 |access-date=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On 2 June 1578, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Montepeloso.

He served as Bishop of Montepeloso until his death in 1592.

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