Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Paolo Pellegrini | |
Bishop of Capri | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Capri |
Term: | 1641–1683 |
Predecessor: | Francesco Antonio Biondo |
Successor: | Dionisio Petra |
Consecration: | 2 April 1641 |
Birth Date: | 1597 |
Birth Place: | Naples, Italy |
Death Date: | April 1683 (age 86) |
Death Place: | Capri, Italy |
Paolo Pellegrini (1597 – April 1683) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Capri (1641–1683).[1]
Paolo Pellegrini was born in Naples, Italy in 1597.[2] On 18 March 1641, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Capri.On 2 April 1641, he was consecrated bishop by Benedetto Ubaldi, Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia, with Luigi Leonardo Mocenigo, Archbishop of Candia, and Filippo Cansacchi, Bishop of Gravina di Puglia, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Capri until his death in April 1683.