{{short description|18th-century Italian Catholic bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = Most Reverend | name = Alessandro Croce | title = Bishop of Cremona | other_names = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = Diocese of Cremona | see = | term = 1697–1704 | predecessor = Lodovico Septala | successor = Carlo Ottaviano Guasco <!-- Orders --> | ordination = 19 September 1676 | ordained_by = | consecration = 8 December 1697 | consecrated_by = Baldassare Cenci (seniore) | cardinal = | created_cardinal_by = | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = 3 July 1650 | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = 23 September 1704 (age 54) | death_place = Cremona, Italy | previous_post = | denomination = }}
'''Alessandro Croce''' (1650–1704) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cremona (1697–1704).<ref name=HierarchiaV>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V|pages=176|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|ISBN=}} ''(in Latin)''</ref>
==Biography== Alessandro Croce was born in Milan, Italy on 3 July 1650 and ordained a priest on 19 September 1676.<ref name=CathHierAlessCroce>{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Bishop Alessandro Croce |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcroceal.html |accessdate=16 June 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> On 2 December 1697, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Cremona.<ref name=HierarchiaV /><ref name=CathHierAlessCroce /> On 8 December 1697, he was consecrated bishop by Baldassare Cenci (seniore), Archbishop of Fermo, with Prospero Bottini, Titular Archbishop of ''Myra'', and Sperello Sperelli, Bishop of Terni, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierAlessCroce /> He served as Bishop of Cremona until his death on 23 September 1704.<ref name=CathHierAlessCroce />
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==External links and additional sources== * {{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Cremona |publisher=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dcrmn.html|accessdate=16 June 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] * {{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Cremona (Italy) |publisher=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/crem1.htm |accessdate=16 June 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Cremona | years = 1697–1704 | before = Lodovico Septala | after = Carlo Ottaviano Guasco}} {{s-end}}
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