Guido Luca Ferrero

Guido Luca Ferrero (18 May 1537 – 16 May 1585) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Biography

Guido Luca Ferrero was born in Turin on 18 May 1537, the son of Sebastiano Ferrero, signore of Casalvolone and Villata, and his wife Maddalena Borromeo, daughter of Federico Borromeo, 6th count of Arona and a member of the House of Borromeo. He was the grand-nephew of Cardinals Gianstefano Ferrero and Bonifacio Ferrero; the nephew of Cardinals Filiberto Ferrero and Pier Francesco Ferrero; and the cousin of Cardinal Charles Borromeo. He was also Abbot of S. Michele in Gaviano, where he founded a seminario in 1571. From 1570 to 1585 Guido Ferrero was Prior of Chamonix.

He was elected Bishop of Vercelli on 2 March 1562 and he was subsequently consecrated as a bishop. In 1564, he became nuncio to the Republic of Venice. He received the red hat and the deaconry of Sant'Eufemia (a titular church declared a deaconry pro illa vice) on 8 February 1566. He resigned the government of the Diocese of Vercelli sometime before 17 October 1572, and was given in exchange the Monastery of S. Silvestro di Nonantola, near Modena (1573–1582).

He was governor of Spoleto from 1572 to 1578.

Cardinal Guido owned the Villa Ruffinella in Frascati from 1578 to 1585. On 10 May 1585 he donated the villa (reserving lifetime tenancy) to a college of scholars which he had founded in Torino. He also was the possessor of the remains of the Baths of Constantine, where later was built the Consulta and the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.

He died in Rome on 16 May 1585.