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Italian Cardinal
Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540 – 14 February 1603) was an Italian
Cardinal starting in 1561. He was from
Calitri , not far from
Naples . His attendance at the
papal conclave of 1565-1566 at the age of only 25 makes him one of the youngest Cardinals ever to participate in a papal election.
[1]
He was
Archbishop of Conza in 1564,
Bishop of Albano in 1583,
Bishop of Frascati in 1587,
Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1589,
Bishop of Ostia in 1591, and
Archbishop of Naples in 1596.
He was a patron of
Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, the mother church of the
Theatine Order .
[2] The composer
Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.
Episcopal succession
Episcopal succession of Alfonso Gesualdo
While bishop, he was the
principal consecrator of:
[3]
Salvatore Caracciolo ,
Archbishop of Conza (1572);
Marcantonio Pescara ,
Archbishop of Conza (1574);
Silvio de Sainte-Croix ,
Archbishop of Arles (1574);
Ippolito Aldobrandini (seniore) ,
Pope of Rome (1592);
Filippo Spinelli ,
Titular Bishop of Colossae and
Coadjutor
Bishop of Policastro (1592);
Marco Magnacervo ,
Bishop of Lucera (1593);
Vincenzo Giustiniani ,
Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1593);
Basilio Pignatelli ,
Bishop of L'Aquila (1593);
Annibale D'Afflitto ,
Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (1593);
Cesare Del Pezzo ,
Bishop of Valva e Sulmona (1593);
Benedetto Mandina ,
Bishop of Caserta (1594); and
Juan de Castro ,
Archbishop of Taranto (1600).
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