Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Giovanni Battista Visconti Aicardi | |
Bishop of Novara | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Novara |
Term: | 1688–1713 |
Predecessor: | Giuseppe Maria Maraviglia |
Successor: | Giberto Bartolomeo Borromeo |
Ordination: | 4 April 1665 |
Consecration: | 8 June 1688 |
Consecrated By: | Carlo Pio di Savoia |
Birth Date: | 1644 |
Death Date: | 10 August 1713 |
Death Place: | Novara, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Giovanni Battista Visconti Aicardi, B. (1644 – 10 August 1713) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Novara (1688–1713).[1]
Giovanni Battista Visconti Aicardi was born in Milan, Italy in 1644 and ordained a priest in the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul on 4 April 1665.[2] On 31 May 1688, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Novara.On 8 June 1688, he was consecrated bishop by Carlo Pio di Savoia, Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina.He served as Bishop of Novara until his death on 10 August 1713.