Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Antonio Spinelli | |
Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Melfi e Rapolla |
Term: | 1697–1724 |
Predecessor: | Francesco Antonio Triveri |
Successor: | Mondilio Orsini |
Consecration: | 8 December 1697 |
Consecrated By: | Baldassare Cenci (seniore) |
Birth Date: | Aquaro Feudo, Italy |
Birth Place: | 1657 |
Death Date: | October 1724 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Antonio Spinelli, C.R. (1657 – October 1724) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla (1697–1724).[1]
Antonio Spinelli was born in Aquaro Feudo, Italy in 1657 and ordained a priest in the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence.[2] On 2 December 1697, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla.On 8 December 1697, he was consecrated bishop by Baldassare Cenci (seniore), Archbishop of Fermo, with Prospero Bottini, Titular Archbishop of Myra, and Sperello Sperelli, Bishop of Terni, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla until his death in October 1724.
While bishop, Spinelli was the principal co-consecrator of: