Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia | |
Titular Patriarch of Alexandria | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1695–1710 |
Predecessor: | Petrus Draghi Bartoli |
Successor: | Carlo Ambrogio Mezzabarba |
Consecration: | 15 March 1676 |
Consecrated By: | Francesco Nerli (iuniore) |
Birth Place: | Piedimonte Matese, Italy |
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Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia (1643–1710) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Patriarch of Alexandria (1695–1710), Apostolic Nuncio to Florence (1676–1678), and Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1676–1695).[1] [2] [3]
Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia was born in Piedimonte Matese, Italy in 1643.On 24 February 1676, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement X as Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto.[4] On 15 March 1676, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Nerli (iuniore), Archbishop of Florence, with Antonio Pignatelli del Rastrello, Bishop of Lecce, and Stefano Brancaccio, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, serving as co-consecrators. On 4 April 1676, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement X as Apostolic Nuncio to Florence where he served until his resignation on 15 June 1678.On 2 May 1695, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Titular Patriarch of Alexandria.He served as Titular Patriarch of Alexandria until his death on 12 August 1710.[5]
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: