Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Antonio del Buffalo | |
Bishop of Gallipoli | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Gallipoli |
Term: | 1668–1677 |
Predecessor: | Giovanni Montoja de Cardona |
Successor: | Antonio Pérez de la Lastra |
Consecration: | 19 February 1662 |
Consecrated By: | Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade |
Birth Date: | 1619 |
Birth Place: | Vallata, Italy |
Death Date: | 25 September 1677 |
Death Place: | Gallipoli, Apulia, Italy |
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Antonio del Buffalo, O.F.M. or Antonio Geremia de Bufalo (1619–1677) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Gallipoli (1668–1677), Auxiliary Bishop of Sigüenza (1666–1668), and Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (1661–1666).[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Antonio del Buffalo was born in Vallata, Italy in 1619 and ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.On 5 March 1660, he was selected by the King of Spain and confirmed on 8 August 1661 by Pope Alexander VII as Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo and Titular Bishop of Temnus.On 19 February 1662, he was consecrated bishop by Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade, Archbishop of Embrun, with Luis de Morales (bishop), Titular Bishop of Troas, and Miguel Pérez Cevallos, Titular Bishop of Arcadiopolis in Asia, serving as co-consecrators. In 1666, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Auxiliary Bishop of Sigüenza.On 14 May 1668, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement IX as Bishop of Gallipoli.He served as Bishop of Gallipoli until his death on 25 September 1677.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:
and the principal co-consecrator of: