Aloisio Riccio

Luigi Aloisio Riccio was a Sicilian Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.[1] He was one of two (the other being Edward Fitzgerald) to vote against the doctrine of papal infallibility, which received 433 votes in support, in the 1870 First Vatican Council.[2]

Personal Details

Riccio was born in Naples on 28 October 1817, was ordained priest on 5 June 1841, became Bishop of Monopoli in 1859, and of Caiazzo in 1860, serving in the latter capacity until his death on 9 November 1873, at the age of 56 years.[3]

References
  1. Vatican Council, as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Caiazzo, Michael and Monika K. Hellwig. "The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia", 2004
  3. "Bishop Luigi Riccio [Catholic-Hierarchy]".



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