Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Papirio Silvestri | |
Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1642–1659 |
Predecessor: | Felice Centini |
Successor: | Francesco Cini |
Consecration: | 3 August 1642 |
Consecrated By: | Girolamo Verospi |
Birth Date: | 1592 |
Birth Place: | Cingoli, Italy |
Death Date: | February 1659 (age 67) |
Papirio Silvestri (1592–1659) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino (1642–1659).[1]
Papirio Silvestri was born in Cingoli, Italy in 1592.[2] On 14 July 1642, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino.On 3 August 1642, he was consecrated bishop by Girolamo Verospi, Bishop of Osimo, with Giovanni Battista Altieri, Bishop Emeritus of Camerino, and Marco Antonio Coccini, Bishop of Anglona-Tursi, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino until his death in February 1659.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: