Type: | Bishop |
Antoine Philibert Albert Bailly B. | |
Bishop of Aosta | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
See: | Diocese of Tarentaise |
Term: | 1659–1691 |
Predecessor: | Philibert Milliet de Faverges C.R.L. |
Successor: | Alexandre Lambert de Soyrier |
Ordination: | 1635 |
Consecration: | March 9, 1659 |
Consecrated By: | Archbishop Giulio Cesare Bergera |
Birth Date: | 1605 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Grésy-sur-Aix, FR |
Death Place: | Aosta, IT |
Nationality: | Italian |
Religion: | Roman Catholic Church |
Occupation: | Bishop |
Profession: | priest |
Antoine Philibert Albert Bailly | |
Dipstyle: | His Excellency |
Offstyle: | Your Excellency |
Relstyle: | Bishop |
Antoine Philibert Albert Bailly (1 March 1605 - 3 April 1691) was a Savoyard clergyman who was bishop of Aosta from 1659 until his death.
Born in 1605 to Barthélémy Balli and Béatrix de Loziano,[1] he studied with the Jesuites of Chambéry and after he moved to Turin, where he became secretary of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy. He became a Barnabite priest in 1633.
He was ordained as a bishop in March 1659.
Although not a native of the Aosta Valley, Bailly remains, as a devoted defender of local freedoms, a cultural and historical figure of the valley. He is considered by Lin Colliard as "the best and the most prolific Valdôtain writer of the time" and Rosanna Gorris[2] stated that "the most important writer of Valdôtain 17th century literature is certainly Albert Bailly, bishop of Aosta".