Ovidio Lari

Ovidio Lari (2 January 1919 – 2 February 2007) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Aosta.

Ovidio Lari was born on 2 January 1919 in the frazione of Fabbrica in Peccioli, a comune in the Province of Pisa and the Diocese of Volterra, both of which are in the Italian region of Tuscany.

He was ordained a priest on 10 August 1941, after which he became the chaplain of the Cathedral of Volterra. He also received a Doctor of Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

Lari served as a professor of literature, philosophy, and theology at seminary of Volterra from 1941 to 1968 and as a professor of letters at the Pontifical Regional Seminary "Pius XII" in Siena from 1955 to 1958.

He was director of the weekly magazine of the Diocese of Volterra, L'Araldo (English: The Herald), from 1953 to 1968 and was the canon of the Cathedral of Volterra from 1948 to 1968.

He has participated as an expert in the Second Vatican Council with the Bishop of Volterra, Marino Bergonzini.

On 15 October 1968, Pope Paul VI appointed Lari as the Bishop of Aosta, succeeding Mathurin Blanchet. He received his episcopal ordination on 30 November, Bishop Marino Bergonzini acting as the principal consecrator and Bishops Abele Conigli and Carlo Colombo as co-consecrators. He was installed in the diocese on 8 December of that year.