Italian bishop and cardinal (1543–1585)
Alessandro Riario (1543–1585) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal .
Biography
Alessandro Riario was born in Bologna on 3 December 1543, the son of patricians Palatine Count Giulio Riario, and Isabella Pepoli.[ 1] Pope Gregory XIII .[ 1] University of Padua and then at the University of Bologna , becoming a doctor of both laws on 11 May 1563.[ 1]
As a young man, he moved to Rome where he became a protonotary apostolic and a Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura .[ 1] Pope Pius IV made him a domestic prelate .[ 1] [ 1] auditor general of the Apostolic Signatura from 3 April 1565 to 1578.[ 1]
On 8 November 1570 he was elected Titular Patriarch of Alexandria .[ 1] Michele Bonelli in 1571 on his legation to Spain , the Kingdom of Portugal , and the Kingdom of France designed to promote a league against the Ottoman Empire .[ 1] consecrated as a bishop in the Sistine Chapel on 24 August 1572 by Cardinal Benedetto Lomellini assisted by Antonio Elio , Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem , and Giovanni Ambrosio Fieschi , Bishop of Savona .[ 1]
Pope Gregory XIII made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of 21 February 1578.[ 1] [ 2] red hat and the titular church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on 3 March 1578.[ 1] Francesco Crasso and other prelates , he was charged with reforming the Roman Curia .[ 1] legate a latere before Philip II of Spain .[ 1] Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in May 1581.[ 1] a latere to the Kingdom of Portugal on 25 October 1581 and served as legate a latere in Perugia and Umbria from 25 October 1581 to 1583.[ 1] papal conclave of 1585 that elected Pope Sixtus V .[ 1]
He died in Rome on 18 July 1585.[ 1] Santi Apostoli .[ 1] [ 1]
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