Giovanni Delfino (camerlengo)
His Eminence Giovanni Delfino | |
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| Cardinal-Priest of San Carlo ai Catinari | |
 Portrait by Leandro Bassano | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
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| Consecration | 27 Dec 1603 by Alfonso Visconti |
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| Born | 15 December 1545 |
| Died | 25 November 1622 (age 76) Venice, Italy |
Cardinal Giovanni Dolfin, often Italianized as Delfin or Delfino (Venice, 15 December 1545 - Venice, 25 November 1622), was an Italian politician and
Biography
Having obtained he degree of Doctor in utroque jure at the University of Padua, Giovanni Delfino seemed to want to embrace the ecclesiastical state, but was instead initiated into a political and diplomatic career; after having exercised some minor offices in Venice, in 1577 he was appointed podestà and captain of Belluno.
Between 1582 and 1595 he was sent as ambassador of the
Returning to his homeland he also occupied the post of one of the Riformatori dello studio di Padova.
In 1603, the
Delfino resigned the diocese of Vicenza, after he became a cardinal, in favor of his brother Dionisio Delfini. The exchange was approved by Pope Paul V on 19 June 1606.[6]
Cardinalate
Bishop Giovanni Delfino was named a cardinal-priest by Pope Clement VIII on 9 June 1604. He was assigned the titular church of San Matteo in Merulana on 24 November 1604, which he exchanged for San Marco on 1 June 1605. He opted for the titular church of San Gerolamo degli Illirici on 23 June 1621, and then for San Carlo ai Catinari on 28 August 1622.[7]
He served a term as Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the College of Cardinals from 7 January 1619 to 13 January 1620.[8]
He died in Venice on 25 November 1622, at the age of 77.[9]
Episcopal succession
While bishop and cardinal, he was the
- Archbishop of Candia(1605);
- Bishop of Pula(1605);
- Bishop of Vicenza(1606);
- Bishop of Sovana(1606);
- Bishop of Bergamo(1611);
- Bishop of Crema(1612);
- Bishop of Chioggia(1613);
- Bishop of Canea(1613);
- Bishop of Canea(1614);
- Bishop of Carcassonne(1615);
- Bishop of Chioggia(1615); and
- Bishop of Concordia(1615).
See also
References
- ^ Giovanni Mantese, Memorie storiche della Chiesa vicentina, IV/1, Dal 1563 al 1700, (Vicenza, Accademia Olimpica, 1974), p. 143. His report (relazione) to the Venetian Senate is printed by Eugenio Albèri, Relazioni Degli Ambasciatori Veneti Al Senato: Le Relazioni Degli Ambasciatori Veneti Al Senato : durante il Secolo decimosesto. 2, Le Relazioni d'Italia, Tom. IV, Vol. 10 (Firenze: Società editrice Fiorentina 1857), pp. 450-504.
- ^ Albèri, p. 450.
- ^ Gauchat, p. 367 with note 2.
- ^ Guglielmo Berchet, Relazioni degli stati europei lette al Senato dagli ambasciatori Veneti nel secolo decimosettimo, Venezia, 1857, Vol. I, page 56.
- OCLC 53276621. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
- ^ Gauchat, p. 367. The death of Clement VIII on 3 March 1605, the election of Leo XI on 1 April 1605 and his death on 27 April 1605, and the election of Paul V on 16 May 1605, slowed the regular work of the curia.
- ^ Gauchat, pp. 7, no. 45; 367, note 2.
- ^ Gauchat, p. 58. Delfino was never Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, the far more important office.
- ^ Riccardi, p. 209. Gauchat, pp. 7, note 13.
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Sources
- Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana.
- Riccardi, Tommaso (1786). Storia Dei Vescovi Vicentini (in Italian). Vicenza: Vendramini Mosca.
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