Editing Pope Alexander VIII (section)

===Episcopate and cardinalate===
[[File:Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (later Pope Alexander VIII).jpg|thumb|upright|''Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni'' by [[Ludovico Dorigny]] (before 1689, Museo antoniano, [[Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua]])<!--Although the description indicates that the portrait was created before his election to the papacy, the chronological location of the portrait has not been fully clarified currently, due to the vestments reminiscent of the papal robes.-->]]

[[Pope Innocent X]] appointed him to the cardinalate<ref name="FogelmanFusco2002">{{cite book|author1=Peggy Fogelman|author2=Peter Fusco|author3=Marietta Cambareri|title=Italian and Spanish Sculpture: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHw1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA224|date=26 December 2002|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-0-89236-689-7|pages=224}}</ref> and in 1652 at the request of the Venetian government and he was made the Cardinal-Priest of [[San Salvatore in Lauro]]. He was appointed as [[Bishopric of Brescia|Bishop of Brescia]] in 1654 and later received [[episcopal consecration]] in the [[San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio, Rome|church of San Marco]] in Rome. He would spend a quiet decade in his diocese. He opted to be Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in 1660 and resigned as Bishop of Brescia in 1664. Ottoboni also opted to become Cardinal-Priest of [[Santa Maria in Trastevere]] in 1677 and later as Cardinal-Priest of [[Santa Prassede]] in 1680. He later became the Cardinal-[[Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Sabina–Poggio Mirteto|Bishop of Sabina]] in 1681 and then to [[Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Frascati|Frascati]] in 1683. His last swap was that of [[Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto–Santa Rufina|Porto e Santa Rufina]] in 1687.

Ottoboni was also the Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals from 1687 to his pontifical election.