Marcello Pignatelli

{{short description|17th-century Italian Catholic bishop}}

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| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Marcello Pignatelli

| title = Bishop of Jesi

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| church = Catholic Church

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| diocese = Diocese of Iesi

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| term = 1617–1621

| predecessor = Pirro Imperoli

| successor = Tiberio Cenci

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| consecration = 26 November 1617

| consecrated_by = Ladislao d'Aquino

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| birth_date = 1567

| birth_place = Rome, Italy

| death_date = 1621 (age 54)

| death_place = Jesi, Italy

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| nationality = Italian

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Marcello Pignatelli, C.R. (1567–1621) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Jesi (1617–1621).{{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=71|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|isbn=}} (in Latin)

Biography

Marcello Pignatelli was born in Rome, Italy in 1567 and ordained a priest in the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Marcello Pignatelli, C.R.|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpignm.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}}{{self-published source|date=January 2022}} On 13 November 1617, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Jesi. On 26 November 1617, he was consecrated bishop by Ladislao d'Aquino, Bishop of Venafro, with Antonio d'Aquino, Bishop of Sarno, and Innico Siscara, Bishop of Anglona-Tursi, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Jesi until his death in 1621.

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