Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Claudio Rangoni | |
Bishop of Reggio Emilia | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1592–1606 |
Predecessor: | Giulio Masetti (bishop) |
Successor: | Alessandro d'Este |
Consecration: | 10 January 1593 |
Consecrated By: | Girolamo Bernerio |
Birth Date: | 26 September 1559 |
Birth Place: | Modena, Italy |
Death Date: | 2 September 1621 (age 61) |
Death Place: | Reggio Emilia, Italy |
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Claudio Rangoni (26 September 1559 - 2 September 1621) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1592–1606)[1] [2] and Apostolic Nuncio to Poland (1598–1606).
Claudio Rangoni was born in Modena, Italy on 26 September 1559.[3] On 16 December 1592, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Reggio Emilia. On 10 January 1593, he was consecrated bishop by Girolamo Bernerio, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, with Giovanni Domenico Marcot, Archbishop of Split, and Feliciano Ninguarda, Bishop of Como, serving as co-consecrators. On 20 October 1598, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Apostolic Nuncio to Poland. He served as Bishop of Reggio Emilia and Apostolic Nuncio to Poland until his resignation on 16 September 1606. He died on 2 September 1621.
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:
and the principal co-consecrator of:
Through Wawrzyniec Gembicki, he is credited as the progenitor of a cadet branch within the Rebiba episcopal line, which is also the episcopal genealogy of Pope Pius XI.