Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Antonio Polcenigo | |
Bishop of Feltre | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1684–1724 |
Predecessor: | Bartolomeo Gera |
Successor: | Pietro Maria Suárez |
Ordination: | 8 August 1683 |
Consecration: | 1 May 1684 |
Consecrated By: | Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal) |
Birth Date: | 18 April 1647 |
Death Date: | April 1724 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Antonio Polcenigo (18 April 1647 – April, 1724) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Feltre (1684–1724).[1] [2]
Antonio Polcenigo was born in Fanna, Italy on 18 April 1647 and ordained a priest on 8 August 1683. On 24 April 1684, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Feltre. On 1 May 1684, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal), Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca, with Francesco Maria Giannotti, Bishop of Segni, and Francesco Onofrio Hodierna, Bishop of Bitetto, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Feltre until his death in April 1724.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Giovanni Tommaso Maria Marelli, Archbishop of Urbino (1716).