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'''Marcantonio Bobba''' (also in French ''Marc-Antoine Bobba'') (died 1575) was an Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Aosta, Italy and cardinal.
==Biography== Marcantonio Bobba was born in Casale Monferrato, the son of Palatine Count Alberto Bobba.<ref name="bare_url">{{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title= BOBBA, Marcantonio (beginning of 16th century-1575)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1565.htm#Bobba|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |accessdate=|publisher=Florida International University Libraries|oclc=53276621}}</ref> His family was related to the ''signori'' of Rosignano Monferrato.<ref name="bare_url" />
He was educated at the University of Turin, becoming a doctor of both laws.<ref name="bare_url" /> There, he gained the favor of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, who made him a senator of Turin.<ref name="bare_url" />
He was ordained as a priest around 1556.<ref name="bare_url" /> On June 14, 1557, he was elected to be Bishop of Aosta.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was consecrated as a bishop in Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo de' Medici.<ref name="bare_url" /> The Duke of Savoy named him ambassador of the Duchy of Savoy to the Holy See in 1559.<ref name="bare_url" /> He arrived at the Council of Trent on January 17, 1563, participating in the council until its close.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was also the Duchy of Savoy's ambassador to the council.<ref name="bare_url" /> From June 21, 1563, he was a member of the council's commission on canons and marriage.<ref name="bare_url" />
Pope Pius IV made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of March 12, 1565.<ref name="bare_url" /> He participated in the papal conclave of 1565-66 that elected Pope Pius V.<ref name="bare_url" /> He received the red hat and the titular church of San Silvestro in Capite on February 8, 1566.<ref name="bare_url" /> Together with Cardinals Giovanni Ricci, Giovanni Francesco Commendone, and Alessandro Sforza, was named by Pope Pius V inspector of rivers, ports and public roads of Rome.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was a participant in the papal conclave of 1572 that elected Pope Gregory XIII.<ref name="bare_url" /> On June 2, 1572, he opted for the titular church of San Marcello al Corso.<ref name="bare_url" />
He was a good friend of Cardinal Charles Borromeo.<ref name="bare_url" />
He died in Rome on March 18, 1575. He was buried in Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.<ref name="bare_url" />
==Episcopal succession== {| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"| ! style="background:#F5DEB3"| <small>Episcopal succession of Marcantonio Bobba</small> |- | While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:<ref name=CathHierCarloMont>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Marcantonio ''Cardinal'' Bobba |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbobba.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> *Hildebrand Riedmatten, Bishop of Sion (1569); and *Carlo Montigli, Archbishop of Amalfi (1570). |}
==See also== *Catholic Church in Italy
==References== <references />
==Bibliography== * {{cite book|author=Carlo Tenivelli|title=Biografia Piemontese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wsw5AAAAcAAJ|volume=Decade seconda|year=1785|publisher=Briolo|location=Torino|language=Italian|pages=235–250}}
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | title = Bishop of Aosta | years = 1557–1568 | before = Pietro Gazino | after = Girolamo Ferragatta}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite | years = 1566–1572 | before = Annibale Bozzuti | after = François de Joyeuse}} {{succession box | title = Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello | years = 1572–1575 | before = Marco Antonio Amulio | after = Giovanni Battista Castagna}} {{s-end}}
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