Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Francesco Tontori | |
Bishop of Ischia | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Ischia |
Term: | 1638–1663 |
Predecessor: | Iñigo de Avalos |
Successor: | Giovanni Antonio de' Vecchi |
Consecration: | 24 January 1638 |
Consecrated By: | Francesco Maria Brancaccio |
Death Date: | 1663 |
Death Place: | Ischia, Italy |
Francesco Tontori, C.R.S. or Francesco Tontolo (died 1663) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ischia (1638–1663).[1]
Francesco Tontori was ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha.[2] On 15 January 1638, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Ischia.On 24 January 1638, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli, with Alfonso Gonzaga, Titular Archbishop of Rhodus, and Biago Proto de Rubeis, Archbishop of Messina, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Ischia until his death in 1663.While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Ludovico Ridolfi, Bishop of Patti (1649).