Felizian Ninguarda

Page from the family book of Feliciano Ninguarda, here: Coat of arms of Cardinal Otto von Waldburg (1570)

Felizian Ninguarda OP (* 1524 in Morbegno ; † June 5, 1595 in Como ) was Bishop of Scala , Sant'Agata de 'Goti and Como , governor in the bishopric of Regensburg and apostolic nuncio for Upper Germany.

biography

Felizian Ninguarda was the son of a captain in the Duchy of Milan and entered the Dominican order in 1549 . He is one of the enduring forces of the Counter Reformation ; As cathedral preacher of Salzburg, he represented the Archbishop of Salzburg at the Council of Trento in 1562 . He enjoyed the trust of Pope Gregory XIII. So he worked from 1577 to 1583 as Bishop of Scala near Amalfi . From 1578 to 1583 he worked as a nuncio in southern Germany; on June 13, 1580, the Pope appointed him governor of the Regensburg bishopric. There he represented the only three-year-old Prince-Bishop Philipp of Bavaria , with whom it was hoped that the indebted bishopric would be bound to the Duchy of Bavaria in order to assert himself against the predominantly Protestant Regensburg . Ninguarda had been a papal visitor to the diocese of Regensburg since 1574 , where he was duly welcomed by the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg . As a nuncio, he traveled through Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland.

Felizian Ninguarda was bishop of Sant'Agata de 'Goti ( Benevento ) from 1583 to 1588 and then bishop of Como until 1595.

literature

Manfred Eder : NINGUARDA, Felician. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 944-946. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, pp. 125-127.
Kurt Malisch: Ninguarda, Feliciano. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 552 ( digitized version ).
Pierre Surchat: Feliciano Ninguarda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 9, 2010 , accessed December 7, 2019 .
Klaus Unterburger: The apostolic nuncios Bartolomeo Portia and Felician Ninguarda and the diocese of Augsburg in the Reformation century . In: Jahrbuch / Verein für Augsburger Bistumsgeschichte eV, 40 (2006), pp. 127–159.
Klaus Unterburger: The Apostolic Nuncio Feliciano Ninguarda and the Diocese of Freising: a contribution to the mechanisms of the Tridentine reform in the area of the Holy Roman Empire . In: Contributions to Old Bavarian Church History 49 (2006), pp. 117–155.

Works

Libri Agendorum secundum antiquum usum Metropolitanae Salisburgensis Ecclesiae, nunc recens recogniti, & ab omnibus mendis purgati atque aucti. Pars prima et pars secunda. Sebald Mayer (printer), Dillingen 1575.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Anton Schmid: The beginnings of the cathedral predicatures in the German-speaking dioceses. In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 89 (1994), issue 1–2, pp. 78–110, here p. 89.

predecessor	Office	successor
Costantino De Monte Veltronio	Bishop of Scala 1557–1583	Francesco D'Afflitto
Vincenzo Cisone	Bishop of Sant'Agata de 'Goti 1583–1588	Evangelista Pelleo
Giovanni Antonio Volpe	Bishop of Como 1588–1595	Filippo Archinti

personal data
SURNAME	Ninguarda, Felizian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ninguarda, Feliciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Scala, Sant'Agata de 'Goti and Como, diocese administrator of Regensburg, apostolic nuncio
DATE OF BIRTH	1524
PLACE OF BIRTH	Morbegno
DATE OF DEATH	June 5, 1595
Place of death	Como

[1] Anton Schmid: The beginnings of the cathedral predicatures in the German-speaking dioceses. In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 89 (1994), issue 1–2, pp. 78–110, here p. 89.