Marino Bizzi (or Bizza, Latin: Marinus Bizzius, Croatian: Marin Bici; 1565–1625) was a Venetian patrician in Dalmatia, and a prelate of the Catholic Church as Archbishop of Antivari (Bar).
Marino Bizzi was born in 1565 on the island of Rab (Arbe), part of the Republic of Venice (in present-day Croatia)[1] to an aristocratic and wealthy family of Albanian origin.
[2] He served as main priest of the cathedral of that town till 4 February 1608 when Pope Paul V appointed him as the Archbishop of Bar (Antivari)[3] and the administrator of the diocese of Budua.
He was consecrated in Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Delfino on 20 April 1608, then he moved in Venice where he obtained the permission from the Consiglio dei Pregadi to enter in Budua (Budva),[4] a town located in the mainland Albania in the Ottoman Empire.
He also need the authorization of the Ottoman government to enter in that country, and through Mahmut Bushati Bizzi obtained a firman from Sultan Ahmed I, allowing him entry into Antivari.