{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic prelate}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = Most Reverend | name = Alessandro Gallo | title = Bishop of Massa Lubrense | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = Diocese of Massa Lubrense | see = | term = 1632–1645 | predecessor = Maurizio Centini | successor = Gian Vincenzo de' Giuli <!-- Orders --> | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = 8 December 1632 | consecrated_by = Giovanni Battista Pamphili | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 4 March 1645 | death_place = Massa Lubrense, Naples | previous_post = }}
'''Alessandro Gallo''' (died 4 March 1645) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Massa Lubrense (1632–1645).<ref name=HierarchiaIV-MassaLubrensa>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/234/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=234|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster}} ''(in Latin)''</ref>
==Biography== On 24 November 1632, Alessandro Gallo was appointed by Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Massa Lubrense.<ref name=HierarchiaIV-MassaLubrensa /><ref name=CathHierAlessGallo>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Alessandro Gallo |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgalloa.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> On 8 December 1632, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Battista Pamphili, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Eusebio with Tommaso Cellesi, Archbishop of Dubrovnik, and Celso Zani, Bishop of Città della Pieve, as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierAlessGallo /> He served as Bishop of Massa Lubrense until his death on 4 March 1645.<ref name=HierarchiaIV-MassaLubrensa /><ref name=CathHierAlessGallo />
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Girolamo Martini, Bishop of Ugento (1637).<ref name=CathHierAlessGallo />
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==External links and additional sources== *{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Massa Lubrense |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dm540.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Titular Episcopal See of Massa Lubrense |website=GCatholic.org|url=https://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1095.htm |access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]
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