Most Reverend

Francesco Scannagatta
Bishop of Avellino e Frigento
DioceseDiocese of Avellino e Frigento
In office1679–1700
PredecessorCarlo Pellegrini
SuccessorEmanuele Cicatelli
Orders
Ordination6 April 1658
Consecration18 June 1679
by Alessandro Crescenzi
Personal details
Born1632
Dongo, Italy
Died18 March 1700 (age 68)
NationalityItalian

Francesco Scannagatta (more properly, Scanegata) (1632 – 18 March 1700) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (1679–1700).[1][2]

Biography

Francesco Scannagatta was born in Dongo, Italy, a small village on the northwest shore of Lake Como, in 1632.

He studied for and obtained the degree of Doctor in utroque iure (Doctor of Civil and Canon Law) at the University of Milan. He was ordained a priest on 6 April 1658.[2]

He served as Vicar General of the diocese of Loreto. As Vicar General he was sent as papal internuncio to Turin. He then served as Vicar General of Cardinal Innoco Caracciolo, who became Archbishop of Naples in 1667.[3]

On 12 June 1679, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Avellino e Frigento.[1][2] On 18 June 1679, he was consecrated bishop by Cardinal Alessandro Crescenzi, Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, with Pier Antonio Capobianco, Bishop Emeritus of Lacedonia, and Domenico Gianuzzi, Titular Bishop of Dioclea in Phrygia, serving as co-consecrators.[2] During his term as bishop, Scanegata held frequent diocesan synods, in each of his first eight years, from 1680 to 1687, and then in 1689, 1690, 1692 and 1694.[4] He served as Bishop of Avellino e Frigento until his death on 18 March 1700.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica Medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 108. (in Latin)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bishop Francesco Scannagatta" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 14, 2016
  3. ↑ Zigarelli, Giuseppe (1856). Storia della Cattedra di Avellino e de'suoi pastori, con brevi notizie de'Metropolitani della chiesa di Benevento seguito dalla serie cronologica de'vescovi di Frigento e da una esatta descrizione de'luoghi onde di presente viene composta la prima opera (in Italian). Vol. II. Napoli: Vaglio. pp. 52–53.
  4. ↑ Zigarelli, p. 55.


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