Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Giovanni Battista Biglia | |
Bishop of Pavia | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Pavia |
Term: | 1609–1617 |
Predecessor: | Guglielmo Bastoni |
Successor: | Fabrizio Landriani |
Consecration: | 1 Feb 1609 |
Consecrated By: | Michelangelo Tonti |
Birth Date: | 1570 |
Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
Death Date: | 1617 (age 47) |
Giovanni Battista Biglia (1570–1617) was a Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pavia (1609–1617).[1]
Giovanni Battista Biglia was born in 1570 in Milan, Italy.[2] On 19 Jan 1609, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Pavia.On 1 Feb 1609, he was consecrated bishop by Michelangelo Tonti, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, with Ottavio Belmosto (Belmusti), Bishop Emeritus of Aleria, and Domenico Rivarola, Bishop of Aleria, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Pavia until his death in 1617.