Alessandro Campeggio

Alessandro Campeggio (12 April 1504 – 21 September 1554) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

[1] Educated at home, Alessandro Campeggio studied Italian letters, Latin, Ancient Greek, philosophy, and Christian theology.

[1] As such, he was ordained as a priest and consecrated as a bishop on 31 July 1541 in the church of San Michele in Bosco in Bologna.

[1] He received the red hat and the titular church of Santa Lucia in Selci, a deaconry raised pro illa vice to the status of titulus, on 4 December 1551.

[1] He resigned the government of the Diocese of Bologna in favor of his cousin Giovanni Campeggio on 6 March 1553.