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Ottavio Ridolfi

bishop of Ariano and cardinal-bishop of Agrigento

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3357737 ↗
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Ottavio Ridolfi (1582–1624) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

On 21 Oct 1612, he was consecrated bishop by Giovanni Garzia Mellini, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati, with Alessandro Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna, and Lorenzo Landi, Bishop of Fossombrone, serving as co-consecrators.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

Camillo Moro, Bishop of Termoli (1612);

Luigi Capponi, Archbishop of Ravenna (1621); and

Ludovico Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna (1621).

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This entry incorporates text from “Ottavio Ridolfi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.