{{Short description|Italian Roman Catholic prelate}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Francesco Rusticucci | title = Bishop of Fano | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = Diocese of Fano | see = | term = 1567–1587 | predecessor = Ippolito Capilupo | successor = Giulio Ottinelli <!-- Orders --> | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = 21 September 1566 | consecrated_by = Scipione Rebiba | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 1587 | death_place = Fano, Italy | previous_post = Bishop of Venosa (1566–1567) | nationality = }}
'''Francesco Rusticucci''' (died 1587) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Fano (1567–1587) and Bishop of Venosa (1566–1567).<ref name=HierarchiaIII>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol03eube|first=Konrad|last=Eubel|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol III|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hierarchiacathol03eube/page/330 330] and 194|date=1923|publisher=Libreria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|edition=second}} ''(in Latin)''</ref>
==Biography== On 21 August 1566, Francesco Rusticucci was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius V as Bishop of Venosa.<ref name=HierarchiaIII /><ref name=CathHierFranRust>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Francesco Rusticucci |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brustf.html |access-date=June 16, 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref><ref name=GCathFranRust>{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Bishop Francesco Rusticucci |website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/fano0.htm#38700 |access-date=June 16, 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> On 21 September 1566, he was consecrated bishop by Scipione Rebiba, Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Anastasia, with Giulio Antonio Santorio, Archbishop of Santa Severina, and Carlo Grassi, Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierFranRust /> On 31 January 1567, he was appointed by Pope Pius V as Bishop of Fano.<ref name=HierarchiaIII /><ref name=CathHierFranRust /> He served as Bishop of Fano until his death in 1587.<ref name=CathHierFranRust />
==Episcopal succession== While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:<ref name=CathHierFranRust /> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *Alessandro Mazza, Bishop of Fossombrone (1569); *Aurelio Griani, Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano (1570); *Giovanni Domenico Rebiba, Bishop of Ortona (1570); *Girolamo Rusticucci, Bishop of Senigallia (1570); *Carlo Montigli, Archbishop of Amalfi (1570); *Lelio Morelli, Bishop of Capaccio (1586); and *Bonaventura Furlani, Bishop of Alatri (1586).}}
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links and additional sources== *{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Venosa |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dv204.html|access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Diocese of Venosa |website=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/veno0.htm |access-date=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dffcp.html |access-date=January 4, 2019}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola (Italy) |publisher=GCatholic.org|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/fano0.htm|access-date=January 4, 2019}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]
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