Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540 – 14 February 1603) became an Italian Cardinal 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 (consecrated 23 April 1564 by Francesco Pisani), 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 |
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| 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). |
References
- 1.Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Consistory of February 26, 1561 (II)"
- 2.Marcia B. Hall, Rome (2005), p. 303.
- 3."Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017