Selvaggio Primitelli

{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic prelate}}

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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Selvaggio Primitelli

| title = Bishop of Lavello

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| diocese = Diocese of Lavello

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| term = 1613–1615

| predecessor = Leone Fedeli

| successor = Vincenzo Periti

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| consecration = 24 February 1613

| consecrated_by = Giovanni Garzia Mellini

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| death_date = 1615

| death_place = Lavello, Italy

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Selvaggio Primitelli (died 1615) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Lavello (1613–1615).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/216/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=217|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|ISBN=}} (in Latin)

Biography

On 11 February 1613, Selvaggio Primitelli was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Lavello.{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Bishop Selvaggio Primitelli |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bprimit.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS

On 24 February 1613, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati with Decio Caracciolo Rosso, Archbishop of Bari-Canosa, and Antonio d'Aquino, Bishop of Sarno, serving as co-consecrators.

He served as Bishop of Lavello until his death in 1615.

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