Marco Morosini

{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic bishop}}

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Marco Morosini

| title = Bishop of Brescia

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| term = 1645–1654

| predecessor = Vincenzo Giustiniani (bishop of Brescia)

| successor = Pietro Vito Ottoboni

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| consecration = 9 October 1639

| consecrated_by = Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro

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| birth_date = 1605

| birth_place = Venice, Italy

| death_date = 4 October 1654 (age 49)

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| previous_post = Bishop of Treviso (1639–1645)

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Marco Morosini (1605–1654) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Brescia (1645–1654){{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/120/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=121|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster}} (in Latin)

and Bishop of Treviso (1639–1645).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/328/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=329|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster}} (in Latin)

Biography

Marco Morosini was born in 1605 in Venice, Italy.{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Marco Morosini|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmorosinm.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Bishop Marco Morosini |website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/bres0.htm#26058 |access-date=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources

On 3 October 1639, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Treviso.

On 9 October 1639, he was consecrated bishop by Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro, Patriarch of Venice, with Alfonso Gonzaga, Titular Archbishop of Rhodus, and Carlo Carafa, Bishop of Aversa, serving as co-consecrators.

On 31 July 1645, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Brescia.

He served as Bishop of Brescia until his death on 4 October 1654.

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