Archangelo de' Bianchi

His Eminence Archangelo de' Bianchi
Cardinal-Priest of San Cesareo in Palatio
Archangelo de' Bianchi
Church	Catholic Church
Orders
Consecration	21 Sep 1566 by Scipione Rebiba
Personal details
Born	October 4, 1516 Gambolò, Italy
Died	January 18, 1580 Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Previous post	Bishop of Teano (1566-1575)

Archangelo de' Bianchi (October 4, 1516 – January 18, 1580) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.

Archangelo de' Bianchi was born in Gambolò, a village near Vigevano in the Piedmont, the son of Luigi Bianchi and Santina Panizzari. He was from a well-to-do family. At a young age, he entered the Dominican Order at Vigevano. He studied at the Monastery of San Domenico in Bologna, receiving a doctorate in Christian theology in 1527. After he was ordained as a priest in the Order of Preachers, he was assigned by his superiors to accompany Fra Michele Ghislieri, the future Pope Pius V, in many of his missions as an inquisitor. In 1559, Archangelo became Prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the famous Dominican convent in Milan. He became a Commissary of the Roman Inquisition in 1564, just as his patron Cardinal Ghislieri had in 1551. Pius IV made the appointment, in fact, on the recommendation of Cardinal Ghislieri, who had become one of the six cardinals of the Holy Inquisition.

On September 16, 1566, he was appointed Bishop of Teano by his friend Michele Ghislieri, who had been elected Pope Pius V earlier in that year. He was consecrated as a bishop in the Sistine Chapel by Scipione Rebiba, titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1565-1573) on September 21, 1566 with Giulio Antonio Santorio, Archbishop of Santa Severina, and Carlo Grassi, Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone, serving as co-consecrators. Archangelo Bianchi was Bishop of Teano until September, 1575. He resigned the government of his diocese sometime before September 18, 1575.