Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Marco Morosini | |
Bishop of Brescia | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1645–1654 |
Predecessor: | Vincenzo Giustiniani (bishop of Brescia) |
Successor: | Pietro Vito Ottoboni |
Consecration: | 9 October 1639 |
Consecrated By: | Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro |
Birth Date: | 1605 |
Birth Place: | Venice, Italy |
Death Date: | 4 October 1654 (age 49) |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Treviso (1639–1645) |
Marco Morosini (1605–1654) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Brescia (1645–1654)[1] and Bishop of Treviso (1639–1645).[2]
Marco Morosini was born in 1605 in Venice, Italy.[3] [4] On 3 October 1639, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Treviso.On 9 October 1639, he was consecrated bishop by Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro, Patriarch of Venice, with Alfonso Gonzaga, Titular Archbishop of Rhodus, and Carlo Carafa, Bishop of Aversa, serving as co-consecrators. On 31 July 1645, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Brescia.He served as Bishop of Brescia until his death on 4 October 1654.