Giovanni 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.
Live and act
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 .
literature
- Massimo Firpo: MORONE, Giovanni. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77: Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.
- Massimo Firpo: Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation. Ashgate, Aldershot 2015. ISBN 978-1-4724-3977-2 .
- Silvia Schweinzer: Morone, Giovanni. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 154 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling: Morone, Giovanni. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 923-933.
- Manfred E. Welti: Brief history of the Italian Reformation (= writings of the Association for Reformation History . Vol. 193). Mohn, Gütersloh 1985, ISBN 3-579-01663-6 , pp. 17-138 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Web links
- MORONE, Giovanni Girolamo (1509-1580). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 29, 2013.
- Biography of Giovanni Morone on the British website Britannica
- Card. Giovanni Morone on the Italian website Santi e Beati (Saints and Blessed)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Massimo Firpo: MORONE, Giovanni. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77. Rome 2012.
- ^ Claus Arnold : The Roman censorship of the works of Cajetans and Contarini (1558-1601). Limits of theological confessionalization. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, pp. 179-184.
- ↑ Stefania Salvadori: Review of: Massimo Firpo: Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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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 | |
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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 |