Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Gianfrancesco Bembo | |
Bishop of Belluno | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Belluno |
Term: | 1694–1720 |
Predecessor: | Giulio Berlendi |
Successor: | Valerio Rota |
Ordination: | 1678 |
Consecration: | 7 March 1694 |
Consecrated By: | Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni |
Birth Date: | 30 December 1659 |
Birth Place: | Venice, Italy |
Death Date: | 21 July 1720 (age 60) |
Death Place: | Belluno, Italy |
Gianfrancesco Bembo, C.R.S. or Giovanni Francesco Bembo (30 December 1659 – 21 July 1720) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Belluno (1694–1720).[1] [2]
Gianfrancesco Bembo was born in Venice, Italy on 30 December 1659 and ordained a priest in the Clerks Regular of Somasca in 1678.On 1 March 1694, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Belluno.On 7 March 1694, he was consecrated bishop by Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina, with Odoardo Cibo, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople, and Petrus Draghi Bartoli, Titular Patriarch of Alexandria, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Belluno until his death on 21 July 1720.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Marco Gradenigo, Coadjutor Patriarch of Aquileia and Titular Bishop of Titopolis (1701) .