Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Hyacinthe Libelli | |
Archbishop of Avignon | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Archdiocese of Avignon |
Term: | 1673–1684 |
Predecessor: | Azon Ariosti |
Successor: | Alexandre de Montecatini |
Consecration: | 24 February 1673 |
Consecrated By: | Gasparo Carpegna |
Birth Date: | 1616 |
Birth Place: | Citta di Castello, Italy |
Death Date: | 23 October 1684 (age 68) |
Death Place: | Avignon, France |
Hyacinthe Libelli, O.P. (1616 – 23 October 1684) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Avignon (1673–1684).[1] [2]
Hyacinthe Libelli was born in Citta di Castello, Italy in 1616 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers . From 1630 to 1634 he was a student at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum, in Rome. In 1644 he was made a Doctor of Sacred Theology at the college.[3] On 30 January 1673, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement X as Archbishop of Avignon.On 24 February 1673, he was consecrated bishop by Gasparo Carpegna, Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite, with Stefano Brancaccio, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania, and Carlo Vaini, Titular Archbishop of Nicaea, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Archbishop of Avignon until his death on 23 October 1684.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: