Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Ascanio Libertano | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Cagli |
Term: | 1591–1607 |
Predecessor: | Paolo Maria della Rovere |
Successor: | Timocrate Aloigi |
Consecration: | 4 August 1591 |
Consecrated By: | Girolamo Bernerio |
Death Date: | 10 March 1607 |
Death Place: | Cagli, Italy |
Ascanio Libertano (also Ascanio Libertani)(died 10 March 1607) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cagli (1591–1607).[1]
On 19 July 1591, Ascanio Libertano was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIV as Bishop of Cagli. On 4 August 1591, he was consecrated bishop by Girolamo Bernerio, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, with Paolo Alberi, Archbishop Emeritus of Dubrovnik, and Leonard Abel, Titular Bishop of Sidon, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Cagli until his death on 10 March 1607.