Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Stephanus Cosimi | |
Archbishop of Split | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1678–1707 |
Predecessor: | Bonifazio Albani |
Successor: | Stefano Cupilli |
Consecration: | 18 September 1678 |
Consecrated By: | Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal) |
Birth Date: | 27 September 1629 |
Birth Place: | Venice, Italy |
Death Date: | 10 May 1707 (age 77) |
Death Place: | Split, Croatia |
Nationality: | Italian |
Stephanus Cosimi, C.R.S. (27 September 1629 – 10 May 1707) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Split (1678–1707).[1] [2]
Stephanus Cosimi was born in Venice, Italy on 27 September 1629 and ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha. On 5 September 1678, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Archbishop of Split. On 18 September 1678, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal), Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, with Domenico Gianuzzi, Titular Bishop of Dioclea in Phrygia, and Bartolomeo Menatti, Bishop of Lodi, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Archbishop of Split until his death on 10 May 1707.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: