Alfonso Cardinal Visconte, C.O. †

Deceased

Bishop of Spoleto, Italy

Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1552²		Born
1575¹	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
1577²	25.0	Professed	Priest of Confederation of Oratorians of St. Philip Neri
14 May 1584	32.3	Appointed	Apostolic Collector to Portugal
22 Feb 1586	34.1	Resigned	Apostolic Collector to Portugal
15 Apr 1589	37.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor
8 Feb 1591	39.1	Appointed	Bishop of Cervia, Italy
22 Apr 1591	39.3	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor
14 Jul 1591	39.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cervia, Italy
3 Mar 1599	47.1	Elevated to Cardinal
7 Mar 1599	47.1	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
24 Jan 1600	48.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto
10 Sep 1601	49.6	Appointed	Bishop of Spoleto, Italy
19 Sep 1608	56.7	Died	Bishop of Spoleto, Italy

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Alfonso Visconte
(VIAF: 92146825678507632791; WikiData: Q954559)
Alfonso Cardinal Visconte C.O. (born 1552, died 19 Sep 1608) Bishop of Spoleto

Consistory - 1599: Created Cardinal
Conclave - March/April 1605: Participated
Conclave - May 1605: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}
Ordained Bishop Salzburg, Archdiocese of Salzburg, Austria
Death Place Macerata, Diocese of Macerata e Tolentino
Buried Place (Original) Basilica, Loreto, Diocese of Recanati

a priest for 33.7 years
a bishop for 17.1 years
a cardinal for 9.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau †
Archbishop of Salzburg

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau † (1587)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bishop Urban Trennbach † (1562)
Bishop of Passau
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Kuen-Belasy † (1561)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bishop Urban Sagstetter † (1553)
Bishop of Gurk
Bishop Wolfgang von Salm † (1542)
Bishop of Passau
Bishop Johann Kluspeck, O. Cist. † (1532)
Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Isauria
Bishop Aegidius Rehm † (1526)
Bishop of Chiemsee
Matthäus Cardinal Lang von Wellenburg † (1519)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bishop Philipp von der Pfalz (von Bayern) † (1507)
Bishop of Freising
Bishop Mathias Schach, O. Cart. † (1497)
Titular Bishop of Salona
Bishop Ruprecht Pfalzgraf Simmer von Bayern de Rhein † (1492)
Bishop of Regensburg
Bishop Friedrich von Hohenzollern † (1486)
Bishop of Augsburg
Bishop Otto von Sonnenberg †
Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Filippo Gesualdo, O.F.M. Conv. † (1602)
Giovanni Cardinal Delfino † (1603)
Bishop Francesco Persico † (1605)
Bishop Fabrizio Paolucci † (1605)
Paolo Emilio Cardinal Sfondrati † (1607)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Fernando Cardinal Niño de Guevara † (1599)
St. Roberto Francesco Romolo Cardinal Bellarmino, S.J. † (1602)
Bonviso Cardinal Bonvisi † (1602)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}
Ordained Bishop	Salzburg, Archdiocese of Salzburg, Austria
Death Place	Macerata, Diocese of Macerata e Tolentino
Buried Place (Original)	Basilica, Loreto, Diocese of Recanati

Source(s):

b: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Additions/Corrections (front)
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 3 Mar 1599
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 321
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 193, Additions/Corrections (front)
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 164
nunc: Les Nonciatures Apostoliques Permanentes (Biaudet), Page 292
b: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1591, Number 8*
ob/c2/loc: AT, 18 Sep 2022
ob/c2/loc: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 253, Number 20,958

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