Antonio Cogorno
O.P. (died 1565) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as
Bishop of Brugnato (1548–1565).
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Biography
Antonio Cogorno was ordained a priest in the
Order of Preachers
The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...
.
On 5 March 1548, he was appointed during the papacy of
Pope Paul III
Pope Paul III ( la, Paulus III; it, Paolo III; 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549), born Alessandro Farnese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death in November 1549.
He came to ...
as
Bishop of Brugnato.
He served as Bishop of Brugnato until his death in 1565.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of
Bartolomeo Ferro Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian equivalent of Bartholomew. Its diminutive form is Baccio. Notable people with the name include:
* Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (1824–1860), Italian paleobotanist and liche ...
,
Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano was a Latin Catholic diocese located in the commune of Lettere in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the southern-central Italian region Campania. In 1818, it was merged into the Diocese of Castellamm ...
(1567).
References
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16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Paul III
1565 deaths
Dominican bishops
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