Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Francesco Massucci | |
Bishop of Penne e Atri | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Penne e Atri |
Term: | 1648–1656 |
Predecessor: | Silvestro Andreozzi |
Successor: | Gaspare Borghi |
Consecration: | 1 June 1648 |
Consecrated By: | Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo |
Birth Date: | 1610 |
Birth Place: | Recanati, Italy |
Death Date: | September 1656 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Francesco Massucci (1610 – September 1656) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Penne e Atri (1610–1656).[1] [2]
Francesco Massucci was born in Recanati, Italy in 1610. On 18 May 1648, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Penne e Atri. On 1 June 1648, he was consecrated bishop by Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina, with Giovanni Battista Scanaroli, Titular Bishop of Sidon, and Stefano Martini, Bishop of Noli, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Penne e Atri until his death in September 1656.