Giovanni Battista Canaveri

Giovanni Battista Canaveri was an Italian nobleman, Bishop of Biella and Vercelli, first Aumnier of Madame Letizia. He was appointed as Baron of the French Empire in February 1808.

Canaveri was born September 25, 1753 in Borgomaro, Liguria , his family was originally from Piedmont and AlpesMaritimes. His father had exercised the first Magistracy, in the city of Borgomaro. He began his studies at Giaveno and finished at the University of Turin where he received a doctorate at the age ofyears. He then studied at the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, and was ordained a priest on September 21, 1776 by the Archdiocese of Turin. In 1797 he was appointed Bishop of Biella, was consecrated in Rome, but by the request of Pius VII he resigned his position. He was consecrated bishop of Vercelli on February 4, 1805.

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