Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Cesare Sperelli | |
Bishop of Terni | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Terni |
Term: | 1698–1720 |
Predecessor: | Sperello Sperelli |
Successor: | Teodoro Pongelli |
Ordination: | 21 March 1676 |
Consecration: | 28 December 1698 |
Consecrated By: | Fabrizio Paolucci |
Birth Date: | 15 August 1639 |
Birth Place: | Assisi, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Cesare Sperelli (born 1639) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Terni (1698–1720).[1]
Cesare Sperelli was born in Assisi, Italy on 15 August 1639 and ordained a priest on 21 March 1676.[2] On 19 December 1698, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Terni. On 28 December 1698, he was consecrated bishop by Fabrizio Paolucci, Bishop of Ferrara, with Prospero Bottini, Titular Archbishop of Myra, and Sperello Sperelli, Bishop Emeritus of Terni, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Terni until his resignation on 11 December 1720. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of François Amédée Milliet d'Arvillars, Bishop of Aosta (1699).