Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Giovanni Battista Falesi | |
Bishop of Mottola | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Mottola |
Term: | 1638–1648 |
Predecessor: | Tommaso d'Ancora |
Successor: | Tommaso d'Aquino (bishop of Mottola) |
Consecration: | 24 January 1638 |
Consecrated By: | Francesco Maria Brancaccio |
Birth Date: | 1587 |
Death Date: | 1648 |
Death Place: | Mottola, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Giovanni Battista Falesi, O.P. (1587–1648) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Mottola (1638–1648).[1]
Giovanni Battista Falesi was born in Naples, Italy in 1587 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.[2] On 15 January 1638, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Mottola.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 Mottola until his death in 1648.