Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Alfonso Gonzaga | |
Titular Archbishop of Rhodus | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1621–1649 |
Predecessor: | Filippo Spinelli |
Successor: | Karl Kaspar von Leyen-Hohengeroldseck |
Consecration: | 18 April 1621 |
Consecrated By: | Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini |
Birth Date: | 1588 |
Birth Place: | Novellara, Italy |
Death Date: | 1649 (age 60) |
Death Place: | Reggio Emilia, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Alfonso Gonzaga (died 1649) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of Rhodus (1621–1649).[1] [2] [3] [4]
Alfonso Gonzaga was born in Novellara, Italy in 1588. On 17 March 1621, Alfonso Gonzaga was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XV as Titular Archbishop of Rhodus. On 18 April 1621, he was consecrated bishop by Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere. He served as Titular Archbishop of Rhodus until his death in 1649 in Reggio Emilia, Italy.