Napoleone Comitoli Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Napoleone Comitoli
Bishop of Perugia
Church:Catholic Church
Diocese:Diocese of Perugia
Term:1591–1624
Predecessor:Antonio Maria Gallo
Successor:Cosimo de Torres
Consecration:11 Aug 1591
Consecrated By:Giulio Antonio Santorio
Birth Date:1548
Birth Place:Castelleone (Deruta), Italy
Death Date:30 Aug 1624
Death Place:Perugia, Italy

Napoleone Comitoli (1548  - 30 August 1624) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Perugia (1591–1624).[1]

Biography

Napoleone Comitoli was born in Castelleone (Deruta), Italy in 1548. On 19 Jul 1591, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIV as Bishop of Perugia.On 11 Aug 1591, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Antonio Santorio, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, with Ludovico de Torres, Archbishop of Monreale, Flaminio Filonardi, Bishop of Aquino, and Leonard Abel, Titular Bishop of Sidon, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Perugia until his death on 30 Aug 1624.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Fabio Aresti, Bishop of Lucera (1601); Innocenzo Del Bufalo-Cancellieri, Bishop of Camerino (1601); and Virgilio Fiorenzi, Bishop of Nocera Umbra (1605).

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcomitoli.html "Bishop Napoleone Comitoli"