Biago Proto de Rubeis or Biagio Proto de Rossi (1578 – 7 April 1646) was a Catholic prelate who served as
Archbishop of Messina
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(1626–1646).
Biography
Biagio Proto de Rossi was born in Patti, Sicily in about 1578, son of Antonello Proto and Diana Rosso. His mother was the sister of Luciano Rosso bishop of Mazara who took care of the ecclesiastical carrier of Biago, appointing him Canon of the Cathedral of Mazara. Biago earned a doctorate in utroque iure on about 1602 in Messina. At the death of his uncle, on 28 October 1602, he succeeded to be appointed vicar capitular against the will of the Chapter: he ruled the diocese of Mazara until the appointment of the new bishop in 1604. He later worked in the Apostolic Nunciature to Spain.
On 20 July 1626, he was appointed new
Archbishop of Messina
The Archdiocese of Messina ( la, Archidioecesis Messanensis-Liparensis-Sanctae Luciae) was founded as the Diocese of Messina but was raised to the level of an archdiocese on 30 September 1986 with the merging with the former Diocese of Lipari ( ...
upon request of Philip IV of Spain, who had the advowson to present to the Pope the nominee for such office. The episcopal consecration followed on 8 November in
San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
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by the hands of Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti. He received the pallium on next 16 November.
Biagio Proto was accused by people and by the
Senate of Messina
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simony
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. He was summoned in Rome in 1632, and Maraldo Cellesio was sent to Messina to investigate. The result of the investigation supported the charges, however Biagio Proto was acquitted in 1639 and returned in Messina to rule his diocese.
He died on 7 April 1646 in
Milazzo
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, and his remains were moved and buried in the Cathedral of Messina, where his tomb still is visible.
Bishop of Cefalù
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Archbishop of Monreale
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Bishop of Cefalù
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Prospero Spínola
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Prospero Spínola was born in 1587 in Genoa, Italy.
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Bishop of Gaeta
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Giovanni Battista Falesi
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Gaspare Conturla
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Francesco Tontori
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Francesco Tontori was ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha.
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Bishop of Ischia
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Felice Tamburelli
Felice Tamburelli (died 1656) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Sora (1638–1656).
Biography
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On 14 March ...