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The Episcopal Lineage of Pope Pius IV

Giovanni Angelo Medici, the future Pope Pius IV, Archbishop of Ragusa. Ordained bishop 20 April 1546 at Rome, in the chapel of his ordaining bishop, by Filippo Archinto, Bishop of Borgo San Sepolcro, assisted by Marco Cornaro, Archbishop of Spalato, and Giovanni Campeggi, Bishop of Parenzo.


Filippo Archinto, Bishop of Borgo San Sepolcro. Elected 19 March 1539.  The details of his episcopal ordination have not yet been discovered.