Giovanni Benedetti (Bishop of Treviso)

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Giovanni Benedetti ( OP ) (* 1370 in Venice ; † April 14, 1437 in Bologna ) was an Italian religious and from 1418 to 1437 Bishop of Treviso .

biography

In a patrician family, he was fascinated at a young age by the sermon of Giovanni Dominici and became his pupil. Giovanni Dominici propagated the rules of strict observance against the background of the Western Schism . When Giovanni Dominici reopened the Convento di San Domenico di Castello in 1392 to revive the community of Dominican preachers there, he joined them. So he apparently escaped the idea of ​​his family, who had intended a high ecclesiastical office for him.

At the end of the novitiate he was ordained on September 24, 1463 in Chioggia and devoted himself to charitable works, especially during the plague of 1397, and earned the esteem of the Venetians. Shortly afterwards he went to Cologne , where he met the order general Raimund von Capua to report on the progress of the preachers in Italy.

In August 1400 Pope Boniface IX appointed him . to the Patriarch of Grado , but Benedetti refused this despite Dominici's insistence. The reasons for this decision are not clear, but from a letter from Ruggero Contarini to his brother the Patriarch Giovanni Contarini we learn of his intention to remain poor and humble.

From 1403 to at least 1405 he was prior of the Monastery of San Zanipolo . That year he went to Rome at the expense of the Council of Ten to be acquitted of excommunication . With which he had been charged for causing a Venetian nobleman to uncover a conspiracy.

From 1405 to 1409 he ran several times to be elected bishop by the Consiglio dei Pregadi (Senate of Venice), but was never successful. In 1409 he had to leave Venice because the Venetian government had recognized the antipope Alexander V , while following Dominici's example he was Pope Gregory XII. remained faithful. He then took part in the Council of Constance , probably after Giovanni Dominici.

After the rise of Martin V and the end of the Western Schism , the Consiglio dei Pregadi (Senate of Venice) elected him on March 8, 1418 with the consent of the Pope as Bishop of Treviso.

He ruled the diocese with energy and rigor, in accordance with his strong moral principles and in accordance with the synodal constitution issued in 1422.

In addition to numerous pastoral visits, he complained in a letter to the Doge of Venice Tommaso Mocenigo about concubine priests who met in Istrana . The latter, in turn, invited the bishop to exercise moderation and pointed to the weakness of human nature. It also conflicted with the canon law conception of the cathedral's canon law scholars until Cardinal Antonio Correr reformed the chapter's statutes in 1432.

Towards the end of his existence he also held some diplomatic posts. In 1428 he witnessed the Peace of Ferrara between the Anti- Viscontea League and the Duchy of Milan under Filippo Maria Visconti . With the election of the Venetian Eugene IV as Pope, he was appointed papal auditor and thus apostolic nuncio of the Serenissima Republic. In August 1435 he went to Florence to witness the agreement between the Pope and Filippo Maria Visconti. A month later he returned to Venice to inquire on behalf of the Pope whether the Republic would be interested in an agreement with Milan to favor Renatus of Anjou to succeed the King of the Kingdom of Naples (he received a negative reply) . In December of the same year he was still in the lagoon when the Venetian government learned from him that Alfonso V of Aragon was going to Florence to speak to the Pope.

He died in Bologna while working in the Council of Ferrara / Florence . His successor in the episcopal see of Treviso , Ludovico Barbo, was named the following day.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fra quelli, che nel fervor della riforma abbracciarono l 'istituto di San Domenico, su il primo Giovanni de' Benedetti Nobile Veneto, che destinato da 'suoi parenti all'0 fiato ecclesiastico secolare, fuggi per desiderio di maggior perfezione, dalla Casa paterna nell 'anno 1392. e vestito nel convento di San Domenico l 'abito de' Predicatori, ivi viffe con tal esemplarità di costumi, che otto anni dopo cf. Flaminio Cornaro , Note Storiche delle Chiese e Monasteri di Venezia e di Torcello, p. 71
predecessor Office successor
Giacomo da Treviso Bishop Treviso
1418–1437 		Ludovico Barbo
personal data
SURNAME Benedetti, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian religious (Dominican) and Bishop of Treviso
DATE OF BIRTH 1370
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1437
Place of death Bologna