Taddeo Gaddi (cardinal)

Taddeo Gaddi ( born January 22, 1520 in Florence, Italy, † December 22, 1561 in Manfredonia ) was a Cardinal and Roman Catholic bishop.

The lawyer was appointed on June 21, 1535 Archbishop of Cosenza, but received an administrator for the diocese until he had reached the age of 27 years. Since 1536 he succeeded his uncle, Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi, who also commendatory of San Leonardo in Siponto, Archi presbyter and canon of the Florentine cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore and pastor of Santa Maria Novella in Chianti, he was from 1552 Apostolic clerk.

Pope Paul IV created him on March 15, 1557 cardinal priests and dismissed him on 24 March 1557 the titular church of San Silvestro in Capite to.

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