Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Maffeo Vitale | |
Bishop of Mantua | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Mantua |
Term: | 1646–1669 |
Predecessor: | Vincenzo Agnello Suardi |
Successor: | Ferdinando Tiberius Gonzaga |
Consecration: | 11 February 1646 |
Consecrated By: | Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli |
Death Date: | 23 June 1669 |
Death Place: | Mantua, Italy |
Maffeo Vitale, O.F.M. (died 23 June 1669) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Mantua (1646–1669).[1] [2]
Maffeo Vitale was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor. On 5 February 1646, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Mantua.On 11 February 1646, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli, Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio, with Alfonso Gonzaga, Titular Archbishop of Rhodus, and Girolamo Farnese, Titular Archbishop of Patrae, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Mantua until his death on 23 June 1669.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Benedetto Odescalchi, Bishop of Novara (1651); and Rinaldo d'Este, Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1651).