Giulio Piazza

His Eminence Giulio Piazza
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna Bishop of Faenza
File:Giulio Piazza.jpg Portrait of Giulio Piazza
Church	Catholic Church
Orders
Consecration	22 Dec 1697 by Gasparo Carpegna
Personal details
Born	13 Mar 1663 Forli, Italy
Died	23 Apr 1726 (age 63) Faenza, Italy

Giulio Piazza (1663–1726) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Biography

On 22 Dec 1697, he was consecrated bishop by Gasparo Carpegna, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere, with Gregorio Giuseppe Gaetani de Aragonia, Titular Patriarch of Alexandria, and Antonio Spinelli, Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, serving as co-consecrators.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:

• Franz Joseph Supersaxo, Bishop of Sion (1702);
• Johannes Werner von Veyder, Titular Bishop of Eleutheropolis in Macedonia and Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne (1704);
• Wilhelm von Leslie, Titular Bishop of Abdera and Coadjutor Bishop of Trieste (1712);
• Adamus Benedictus Ratkaj (Ádám Ratkay), Bishop of Senj (1713);
• Francesco Bentini, Bishop of Comacchio (1714);

and the principal co-consecrator of Giovanni Battista Bussi, Titular Archbishop of Tarsus (1706).

References

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Gianantonio Davia	Apostolic Internuncio to Belgium 1690–1696	Succeeded by Orazio Filippo Spada
Preceded by Giorgio Cornaro	Titular Archbishop of Rhodus 1697–1706	Succeeded by Alessandro Aldobrandini
Preceded by Michelangelo dei Conti	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland 1698–1703	Succeeded by Vincenzo Bichi
Preceded by Bernardino Guinigi	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany 1703–1706	Succeeded by Giovanni Battista Bussi
Preceded by Orazio Filippo Spada	Apostolic Nuncio to Poland 1706–1707	Succeeded by Niccolò Spínola
Preceded by Domenico Folgori	Titular Archbishop of Nazareth 1706–1710	Succeeded by Girolamo Mattei (archbishop)
Preceded by Gianantonio Davia	Apostolic Nuncio to Emperor 1709–1713	Succeeded by Giorgio Spínola
Preceded by Marcello Durazzo	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Faenza 1710–1726	Succeeded by Tommaso Cervioni
Preceded by Tommaso Ruffo	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna 1714–1726	Succeeded by Lorenzo Cozza