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Giacomo Altoviti (1604 – 18 May 1693) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Patriarch of Antiochia (1667–1693), Apostolic Nuncio to Venice (1658–1666), and Titular Archbishop of Athenae (1658–1667).
Biography
Giacomo Altoviti was born in Firenze, Italy in 1604. On 29 July 1658, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Titular Archbishop of Athenae. On 11 August 1658, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina. On 21 September 1658, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Apostolic Nuncio to Venice. He resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to Venice on 22 April 1666. On 18 April 1667, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Titular Patriarch of Antiochia.
He served as Titular Patriarch of Antiochia until his death on 18 May 1693.
Episcopal succession
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:
- Giuseppe Maria Maraviglia, Bishop of Novara (1667);
- Angelo Maria Ranuzzi, Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis (1668);
- Leonardo Balsarini, Titular Archbishop of Philadelphia in Arabia (1668);
- Sebastiano Pisani (iuniore), Bishop of Verona (1668);
- Raimondo del Pozzo, Bishop of Vieste (1668);
- Filippo Soldani, Bishop of Fiesole (1670);
- Ludovicus Giustiniani, Bishop of Assisi (1670);
- Mario Cardinal Alberizzi, Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1671);
- Giovanni Rasino, Bishop of Vigevano (1671);
- Tommaso de Franchi, Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla (1671);
- Johann Eberhard Nidhard, Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne (1672);
- Diego de Castrillo, Bishop of Cádiz (1673);
- Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont, Bishop of Fréjus (1679);
- Victor Augustinus Ripa, Bishop of Vercelli (1679);
- Giuseppe Sallustio Fadulfi, Bishop of Amelia (1679);
- Lorenzo Raggi, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina (1680);
- Francesco Berardino Corradini, Bishop of Marsi (1680);
- Pier Matteo Petrucci, Bishop of Jesi (1681);
- Urbano Sacchetti, Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania (1683);
- Horatius Ondedei, Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado (1684).