Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Michele de Bologna | |
Archbishop of Amalfi | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Archdiocese of Amalfi |
Term: | 1701–1731 |
Predecessor: | Simplicio Caravita |
Successor: | Pietro Agostino Scorza |
Ordination: | October 1663 |
Consecration: | 12 March 1690 |
Consecrated By: | Pietro Francesco Orsini de Gravina |
Birth Date: | 29 September 1647 |
Death Date: | 24 February 1731 |
Death Place: | Amalfi, Italy (age 83) |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Isernia (1690–1698) |
Michele de Bologna, C.R. (1647–1731) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Amalfi (1701–1731) and Bishop of Isernia (1690–1698).[1] [2]
Michele de Bologna was born in Somma, Italy, on 29 September 1647 and ordained a priest in the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence in October 1663. On 6 March 1690, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VIII as Bishop of Isernia. On 12 March 1690, he was consecrated bishop by Pietro Francesco Orsini de Gravina, Archbishop of Benevento, with Giuseppe Bologna, Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, and Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia, Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto, serving as co-consecrators. He resigned on 11 December 1698.
On 14 March 1701, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement XI as Archbishop of Amalfi. He served as Archbishop of Amalfi until his death on 24 February 1731, restyling the Cathedral during his time in office there.[3]
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: