Francesco Vitelli

Francesco Vitelli (1586–1646) was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic in the papal service.

Vitelli was born in Città di Castello. He was made titular archbishop of Thessalonica (16 August 1632), then successively transferred to Terni (1634)[1] and to Urbino (1636)[2] and appointed papal nuncio to the Republic of Venice. In 1643 Pope Urban VIII Barberini appointed him Governor of Rome, an honorary position that his absence as bishop of Urbino disabled him from taking up. He was a correspondent of the papal diplomat Guido Bentivoglio, who addressed to him his Relationi concerning Flanders, 1633.[3]

Francesco Vitelli was of the line of Vitelli who had been rich merchants of Città di Castello, who made themselves masters of the town in the early fourteenth century, after civic confrontations with the rival Guelfucci of Brancaleone, and henceforward wielded political and military influence disproportionate to their small territory.[4]

Notes
  1. Bishops of Terni Archived 2008-12-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. "Archidiocesi di Urbino..." Archived from the original on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
  3. Relationi del cardinale Bentiuoglio all'ill[ustrissi]mo e r[everendissi]mo sig[no]r mio colendiss. monsig[nore] Francesco Vitelli arciuescouo di Thessalonica... (Venice, Marco Ginammi) 1633
  4. French Wikipedia, s.v. "Vitelli"
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Giovanni Battista Agucchia		 Apostolic Nuncio to Venice
1632–1643		 Succeeded by
Angelo Cesi
Preceded by
Giovanni Battista Maria Pallotta		 Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
1632–1643		 Succeeded by
Cristofor Segni
Preceded by
Antonio Santacroce		 Archbishop of Urbino
1643–1646		 Succeeded by
Ascanio Maffei
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