Giovanni Carmine Pellerano (6 February 1702 – 18 April 1783) was an Italian Catholic prelate and a member of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem who became bishop of Malta in 1770.

At the age of 24 he was ordained to the priesthood and became a member of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Representatives of the clergy from all parishes gathered in front of the bishop's residence and demanded that he call people together for a large assembly called the chapter general, in order to defend the privileges of the church.

Bishop Pellerano was blamed for these disturbances and thus in 1780, on Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc's insistence, he was forced to leave the diocese, never to return.

[3] Upon his forced exile and resignation Pellerano was appointed Titular Archbishop of Rhodus on 19 June 1780.