Pietro Valier

Bust of Pietro Valiers by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Pietro Valier (also Pietro Valerio , Pietro Valiero and Pietro Valieri ; * 1574 in Venice , † April 5 or April 9, 1629 in Padua ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

He was the second of six children of the Venetian patrician Giovanni Luigi Valier and his wife Laura Bernardo. His great-uncle was Cardinal Bernardo Navagero , his uncle Cardinal Agostino Valier . With Bertuccio Valier and Silvestro Valier, two doges of the 17th century came from the family .

From 1605 Pietro Valier lived in the Apostolic Palace . In 1607 he became a trainee lawyer at the courts of the Apostolic Signature , in 1609 he was governor of San Severino , 1610 governor of Todi and from 1610 to 1614 governor of Orvieto . He was also canon of the cathedral chapter of Padua.

On May 18, 1611, Pietro Valier was appointed titular bishop of Famagusta . He was governor of Spoleto from February 28, 1614 to 1616 , then nuncio in Tuscany until around 1621 . On May 18, 1620 he was made Archbishop of Candia (Crete) and received the pallium on June 1 of the same year .

In the consistory of January 11, 1621, Pope Paul V created Pietro Valier as cardinal priest . He received the red hat on January 14th and the titular church of San Salvatore in Lauro on March 3rd of the same year. He took part in the conclave of 1621 , which Pope Gregory XV. chose. He was appointed a member of the Congregation Propaganda Fide in 1622. Pietro Valier was a participant in the 1623 conclave , from which Urban VIII emerged as Pope. On October 2, 1623 he was transferred to the bishopric of Ceneda (Vittorio Veneto) with the personal title of archbishop . On March 18, 1624 he opted for the titular church of San Marco . He was transferred to the bishopric of Padua on August 18, 1625.

Pietro Valier died on April 5 or 9, 1629 and was buried in the Cathedral of Padua , where a cenotaph was erected in his honor .

literature

Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volume IV (1592-1667). Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, Munich 1935, pp. 14, 44, 49, 144, 168, 275.

Web links

Valier, Pietro. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 7, 2018.
Entry on Pietro Valier (Valerio) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 7, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volume IV (1592-1667). Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, Munich 1935, pp. 14, 44 and 275 cites both dates.

predecessor	Office	successor
Marco Cornaro	Bishop of Padua 1625–1629	Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro
Leonardo Mocenigo	Bishop of Ceneda 1623–1625	Marco Giustiniani
Aloisio Grimani	Archbishop of Crete 1620–1623	Luca Stella

personal data
SURNAME	Valier, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Valerio, Pietro; Valiero, Pietro; Valieri, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH	1574
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1629 or April 9, 1629
Place of death	Padua

[1] Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recientoris Aevi. Volume IV (1592-1667). Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, Munich 1935, pp. 14, 44 and 275 cites both dates.