Italian Roman Catholic prelate
Carlo Fabrizio Giustiniani (12 December 1621 – 1 September 1682) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Accia and Mariana (1656–1682).[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Carlo Fabrizio Giustiniani was born in Genoa, Italy on 12 December 1621 and ordained a priest on 20 December 1648.[2] On 10 January 1656, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Accia and Mariana.[1][2] On 16 January 1656, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati, with Ascanio Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, and Giovanni Agostino Marliani, Bishop Emeritus of Accia and Mariana, serving as co-consecrators.[2] In 1676, he began construction of Notre-Dame-des-Grâces-de-Lavasina church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, on the site where two miracles had occurred.[5][6] He served as Bishop of Accia and Mariana until his death on 1 September 1682.[1][2]
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Adamo Gentile, Bishop of Lipari (1660).[2]
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