Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Giovanni Fontana | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1697–1716 |
Predecessor: | Jan Kazimierz Denhoff |
Successor: | Marco Battista Battaglini |
Consecration: | 9 June 1697 |
Consecrated By: | Bandino Panciatici |
Birth Date: | Modigliana, Italy |
Birth Place: | 1644 |
Death Date: | 2 March 1716 |
Death Place: | Cesena, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Giovanni Fontana (1644 - 2 March 1716) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cesena (1697–1716).[1]
Giovanni Fontana was born in Modigliana, Italy in 1644.[2] On 3 June 1697, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement VIII as Bishop of Cesena. On 9 June 1697, he was consecrated bishop by Bandino Panciatici, Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio, with Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola, Bishop of Cartagena, and Alessandro Lambert, Bishop of Aosta, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Cesena until his death on 2 March 1716.