Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Giovanni Battista Ansaldo | |
Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Cariati e Cerenzia |
Term: | 1576–1578 |
Predecessor: | Sebastiano Maffo |
Successor: | Tarquinio Prisco |
Consecrated By: | Giulio Antonio Santorio |
Death Date: | 1578 |
Death Place: | Cariati, Italy |
Giovanni Battista Ansaldo (died 1578) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia (1576–1578).[1]
On 24 October 1576, Giovanni Battista Ansaldo was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia. On 4 November 1576, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Antonio Santorio, Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, with Cesare de' Giacomelli, Bishop of Belcastro, and Gaspare Viviani, Bishop of Hierapetra et Sitia, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Cariati e Cerenzia until his death in 1578.