Sergio Pola (1 November 1674 – 1748) was an Italian

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of the Roman Catholic Diocese of

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from his appointment by on 19 June 1706, until his death in 1748."Famagusta (Titular See)"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Titular Episcopal See of Famagusta"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 Sergio Pola was born in

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

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as a member of the

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. He was a member of the team, which prepared the background papers for the beatification of cardinal

Gregorio Barbarigo Gregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo (16 September 1625 – 18 June 1697) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who served as the Bishop of Bergamo and later as the Bishop of Padua. He was a frontrunner in both the 1689 and 1691 papal concla ...

. Sergio died in 1748 in Italy, at the age of 73.

Sources

* (It) Florio Miari: ''Cronache Bellunesi inedite dal conte Florio Miari'', 1865, p. 137 ;Specific

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1674 births 1748 deaths 18th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops People from Treviso {{Italy-RC-bishop-stub