Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Modesto Gavazzi | |
Archbishop of Chieti | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Archdiocese of Chieti |
Term: | 1657 |
Predecessor: | Angelo Maria Ciria Panvini |
Successor: | Niccolò Radulovich |
Death Date: | 6 Mar 1657 |
Modesto Gavazzi, O.F.M. Conv. (died 1657) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Chieti (1657).
Modesto Gavazzi was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.On 19 Feb 1657, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Archbishop of Chieti. He died soon after on 6 Mar 1657, a claim which is contradicted by the grant of the pallium to him on 12 March 1657.[1]
Modesto Gavazzi was scholastic philosopher and a close friend and colleague of the better-known Scotists Bonaventura Belluto (1600–76) and Bartholomew Mastrius.