Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Silvestro Andreozzi | |
Bishop of Penne e Atri | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Penne e Atri |
Term: | 1621–1648 |
Predecessor: | Tommasi Balbani |
Successor: | Francesco Massucci |
Consecration: | 18 April 1621 |
Consecrated By: | Giovanni Garzia Mellini |
Birth Date: | 1575 |
Death Date: | January 1648 (age 73) |
Death Place: | Penne e Atri, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Silvestro Andreozzi (1575–1648) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Penne e Atri (1621–1648).[1] [2]
Silvestro Andreozzi was born in Lucca, Italy in 1575.On 17 March 1621, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Penne e Atri.On 18 April 1621, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati with Attilio Amalteo, Titular Archbishop of Athenae, and Paolo De Curtis, Bishop Emeritus of Isernia, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Penne e Atri until his death in January 1648. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Costantino de Rossi, Bishop of Cefalonia e Zante (1634).