| Type: | Bishop |
| Silvestro de' Gigli | |
| Bishop of Worcester | |
| Religion: | Catholic |
| Appointed: | 24 December 1498 |
| Term End: | 16 April 1521 |
| Predecessor: | Giovanni de' Gigli |
| Successor: | Geronimo De Ghinucci |
| Death Date: | 16 April 1521 |
Silvestro de' Gigli, of Lucca, was a Late Middle Ages and High Renaissance Bishop of Worcester, the second of four Italian absentees to hold the see before the Reformation.[1]
He succeeded his uncle, Giovanni de' Gigli, was nominated on 24 December 1498 and consecrated about 6 April 1499. He was implicated but never charged in the 1514 murder by poison of Cardinal and Archbishop of York Christopher Bainbridge.[2] He died on 16 April 1521.[3] The position was then held by Giulio de' Medici, the Cardinal protector of England.[1]