Alfonso Gesualdo

Italian Cardinal

Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540 – 14 February 1603) was an Italian Cardinal starting in 1561. He was from Calitri, not far from Naples. His attendance at the papal conclave of 1565-1566 at the age of only 25 makes him one of the youngest Cardinals ever to participate in a papal election.[1]

He was Archbishop of Conza in 1564, Bishop of Albano in 1583, Bishop of Frascati in 1587, Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1589, Bishop of Ostia in 1591, and Archbishop of Naples in 1596.

He was a patron of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, the mother church of the Theatine Order.[2] The composer Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.

## Episcopal succession

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Episcopal succession of Alfonso Gesualdo

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[3]

* Salvatore Caracciolo, Archbishop of Conza (1572);
* Marcantonio Pescara, Archbishop of Conza (1574);
* Silvio de Sainte-Croix, Archbishop of Arles (1574);
* Ippolito Aldobrandini (seniore), Pope of Rome (1592);
* Filippo Spinelli, Titular Bishop of Colossae and Coadjutor Bishop of Policastro (1592);
* Marco Magnacervo, Bishop of Lucera (1593);
* Vincenzo Giustiniani, Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1593);
* Basilio Pignatelli, Bishop of L'Aquila (1593);
* Annibale D'Afflitto, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (1593);
* Cesare Del Pezzo, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona (1593);
* Benedetto Mandina, Bishop of Caserta (1594); and
* Juan de Castro, Archbishop of Taranto (1600).

## Notes

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1. ^ Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Consistory of February 26, 1561 (II)"
2. ^ Marcia B. Hall, Rome (2005), p. 303.
3. ^ "Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017

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