Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Prospero Spínola | |
Bishop of Luni e Sarzana | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Luni e Sarzana |
Term: | 1637–1664 |
Predecessor: | Giovanni Domenico Spinola |
Successor: | Giovanni Battista Spínola (archbishop) |
Consecration: | 25 October 1637 |
Consecrated By: | Bernardino Spada |
Birth Place: | Genoa, Italy |
Death Date: | 1664 |
Prospero Spínola (1587–1664) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Luni e Sarzana (1637–1664).[1]
Prospero Spínola was born in 1587 in Genoa, Italy.[2] On 7 September 1637, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Luni e Sarzana.On 25 October 1637, he was consecrated bishop by Bernardino Spada, Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio, with Ottavio Corsini, Titular Archbishop of Tarsus, and Biagio Proto de Rossi, Archbishop of Messina, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Luni e Sarzana until his death in 1664.