Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Tommaso de Franchi | |
Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Melfi e Rapolla |
Term: | 1671–1696 |
Predecessor: | Giulio Caracciolo |
Successor: | Francesco Antonio Triveri |
Consecration: | 6 September 1671 |
Consecrated By: | Federico Borromeo (iuniore) |
Birth Date: | 1626 |
Death Date: | May 1696 (age 70) |
Tommaso de Franchi (1626–1696) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla (1671–1696).[1] [2]
Tommaso de Franchi was born in Genoa, Italy in 1626.On 24 August 1671, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement X as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla.On 6 September 1671, he was consecrated bishop by Federico Borromeo (iuniore), Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agostino, with Giacomo Altoviti, Titular Patriarch of Antioch, and Giacomo de Angelis, Archbishop Emeritus of Urbino, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla until his death in May 1696.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Marcos de Ostos, Archbishop of Salerno (1692); and Teofilo Testa, Bishop of Tropea (1692).