Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Gerolamo Ventimiglia | |
Bishop of Lipari | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Lipari |
Term: | 1694–1709 |
Predecessor: | Gaetano de Castillo |
Successor: | Nicola Maria Tedeschi |
Consecration: | 25 July 1694 |
Consecrated By: | Galeazzo Marescotti |
Birth Date: | 1644 |
Birth Place: | Palermo, Italy |
Death Date: | 17 December 1709 (age 65) |
Death Place: | Lipari, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Gerolamo Ventimiglia, C.R. (1644–1709) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Lipari (1694–1709).[1]
Gerolamo Ventimiglia was born in Palermo, Italy in 1644 and ordained a priest in the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence.[2] On 19 July 1694, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Lipari. On 25 July 1694, he was consecrated bishop by Galeazzo Marescotti, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, Prospero Bottini, Titular Archbishop of Myra, and Stefano Giuseppe Menatti, Titular Bishop of Cyrene, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Lipari until his death on 17 December 1709.
While bishop, Ventimiglia was the principal co-consecrator of: