Giovanni Morone

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Cardinal Giovanni Morone
Cardinal coat of arms of Morone

Giovanni Girolamo Morone (born January 25, 1509 in Milan , † December 1, 1580 in Rome ) was a Catholic bishop and cardinal . He was papal legate in Germany and later at the Council of Trent and finally its president.

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Morone was the second youngest of ten children of Girolamo and Amabilia Fisiraga, who were well-known nobles in Milan. His father was a senator, ambassador of the Sforza , Count of Lecco , head of the chancellery in Milan, prisoner of the French and died in Florence in 1529 .

Morone studied law in Padua and through his father's connections he came to the court of Clement VII, where he helped raise the large sum to buy his father out of the captivity of the French. The Pope designated him bishop of Tortona in 1528 and of Modena in 1529, where he was initially only briefly during the French occupation of Milan. In 1531 he was at the Roman court, and in 1533 he was ordained a priest and came to Bologna .

Morone was installed as Bishop of Modena in 1536 , but at the same time by Pope Paul III. sent to Germany to observe the course of the Reformation and attended the religious discussion of Worms and the Diet of Regensburg in 1541 as well as the related religious discussion. On June 2, 1542 he was by Pope Paul III. Elevated to cardinal priest of San Vitale , got Santo Stefano al Monte Celio in 1549 and San Lorenzo in Lucina as titular church in 1553 . In 1548 he was bishop of Novara and in 1555 papal legate at the Reichstag in Augsburg , but in 1557 he was imprisoned in the Castel Sant'Angelo for allegedly betraying the rights of the church in the face of the Augsburg religious peace . Pope Paul IV also thought Morone was a crypto-Lutheran because of the willingness to communicate that he had shown in the religious discussion of 1541. Therefore, an extensive inquisition trial was launched against Morone. Morone was imprisoned until the death of Paul IV in 1559. Pius IV rehabilitated Morone and appointed him President of the Council of Trent in 1563 ; after he had appeased the resistance of Emperor Ferdinand I against his decisions, he brought this to an end. In 1576 he still worked for the Catholic Church in Germany at the Regensburg Reichstag. From 1570 until his death, Morone was Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Cardinal Dean .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Massimo Firpo:  MORONE, Giovanni. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77. Rome 2012.
  2. ^ Claus Arnold : The Roman censorship of the works of Cajetans and Contarini (1558-1601). Limits of theological confessionalization. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, pp. 179-184.
  3. ↑ Stefania Salvadori: Review of: Massimo Firpo: Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation.
predecessor Office successor
Francesco Pisani Cardinal Bishop of Ostia
1570–1580 		Alessandro II Farnese
Francesco Pisani Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
1565–1570 		Cristoforo Madruzzo
Federico Cesi Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
1564–1565 		Alessandro II Farnese
Federico Cesi Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina
1562–1564 		Cristoforo Madruzzo
Robert II. De Lénoncourt Cardinal Bishop of Sabina
1561–1562 		Cristoforo Madruzzo
Pedro Pacheco Cardinal Bishop of Albano
1560–1561 		Cristoforo Madruzzo
Giulio della Rovere Bishop of Novara
1552–1560 		Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni
Pirro Gonzaga Bishop of Modena
1529–1550 		Egidio Foscherani OP
personal data
SURNAME Morone, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morone, Giovanni Girolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal bishop and church politician, council legislature and president
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1509
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1580
Place of death Rome