Maurizio Bertone

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Maurizio Bertone

| title = Bishop of Fossano

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| term = 1678–1701

| predecessor = Ottaviano della Rovere

| successor = Cristoforo Lorenzo Baratta

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| consecration = 12 April 1678

| consecrated_by = Carlo Pio di Savoia

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| birth_date = 6 May 1639

| birth_place = Chieri, Italy

| death_date = 27 November 1701 (age 62)

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Maurizio Bertone, C.R.S. (1639–1701) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Fossano (1678–1701).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft#page/204/mode/2up|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume= V|pages=205|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|ISBN=}} (in Latin)

Biography

Maurizio Bertone was born in Chieri, Italy on 6 May 1639 and ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Maurizio Bertone, C.R.S. |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbertonem.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On 28 March 1678, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Fossano.

On 12 April 1678, he was consecrated bishop by Carlo Pio di Savoia, Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono, with Domenico Gianuzzi, Titular Bishop of Dioclea in Phrygia, serving as co-consecrators.

He served as Bishop of Fossano until his death on 27 November 1701.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of François Hyacinthe Valperga di Masino, Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (1687).

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