Lorenzo Roverella

Most Reverend Lorenzo Roverella
Bishop of Ferrara
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Ferrara
In office	1460–1474
Predecessor	Francesco de Lignamine
Successor	Bartolomeo della Rovere
Personal details
Died	1474

Lorenzo Roverella (died 1474) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Ferrara (1460–1474).^[1]

Biography

On 26 March 1460, Lorenzo Roverella was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius II as Bishop of Ferrara.^[1]^[2] He served as Bishop of Ferrara until his death in 1474.^[1]^[2]

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Giovanni Stefano Botticelli, Bishop of Cremona.^[2]

Rovarella was a referendary in the Roman Curia when Pope Paul II named him to proclaim an indulgence for the crusade against the Hussite king of Bohemia, George Podiebrad in 1468.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Eubel, Konrad (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 153. (in Latin)
^ ^a ^b ^c Cheney, David M. "Bishop Lorenzo Roverella". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. ^{[self-published]}
^ Documents on the Papal Plenary Indulgences 1300-1517 Preached in the Regnum Teutonicum, ed. Stuart Jenks, Leiden, Brill, 2018), 188-202.

External links and additional sources

Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
Chow, Gabriel. "Archdiocese of Ferrara–Comacchio (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}