Benedetto Landi

Benedetto Landi (1578–1638) was a Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Fossombrone (1628–1632).^[1][2]

Biography

Benedetto Landi was born in Velletri, Italy in 1578.^[2] On 5 June 1628, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Fossombrone.^[1][2] On 13 June 1628, he was consecrated bishop by Antonio Marcello Barberini, Bishop of Senigallia, with Lorenzo Azzolini, Bishop of Ripatransone, and Tiberio Cenci, Bishop of Jesi, serving as co-consecrators.^[2] He served as Bishop of Fossombrone until his resignation on 15 November 1632.^[2] He died in 1638.^[2]

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:^[2]

• Ulderico Carpegna, Bishop of Gubbio (1630);
• Giovanni Battista Scanaroli, Titular Bishop of Sidon (1630);
• Tegrimus Tegrimi, Bishop of Assisi (1630);
• Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Ascoli Satriano (1630);
• Cesare Raccagna, Bishop of Città di Castello (1632);
• Marco Antonio Cornaro, Bishop of Padua (1632);
• Amico Panici, Bishop of Sarsina (1632);
• Honoratus Caetani, Titular Patriarch of Alexandria (1633);
• Faustus Poli, Titular Archbishop of Amasea (1633);
• Torquato Perotti, Bishop of Amelia (1633);
• Francesco Maria Merlini, Bishop of Cervia (1635);
• Giovanni Battista Colonna, Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem (1636);
• Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore), Bishop of Viterbo e Tuscania (1636);
• Petras Parčevskis, Bishop of Smoleńsk (1636); and
• Alexander Sokołowski, Bishop of Kyiv (1636).

External links and additional sources

• Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Fossombrone". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
• Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Fossombrone (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]