Niccolò Petronio Count Caldana (Italian: Niccolò Petronio Caldana, Croatian: Nikola Petronij Caldana, died 1670) was Bishop of Poreč from 1667 to 1670.[1]
Niccolò Petronio Caldana | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Poreč | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Bishop of Poreč |
| Appointed | 16 March 1667 |
| Term ended | October 1670 |
| Predecessor | Giambattista del Giudice |
| Successor | Alessandro Adezario |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 15 May 1667 (Bishop) by Daniel Delfino |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Died | October 1670 Piran, Venetian Republic |
Life
editNiccolò Petronio Caldana was born in Piran at the beginning of 17th century.[2] He graduated in utroque iure at the University of Padua,[2] where he used to teach and for two turns he served as provost of that university.[3] He served Pope Alexander VII as envoy at the court of Leopold I where he remained for ten years. He was member of the court of Cardinal Carlo Carafa della Spina. He served also as general commissioner of the Papal army.[3] Living in Bologna, he raised his two orphan nephews, one of them was the poet Marco Petronio Caldana 
.[4]
On 25 June 1646 he was appointed by Pope Alexander VII Bishop of Poreč.[1] Therefore, on Sunday 15 May 1667 he was consecrated bishop in the monastic church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Murano by Daniel Delfino, coadjutor patriarch of Aquileia.[1] After a few years of residence in Poreč, on the way to Rome, he died in Piran in October 1670, and he was buried in that town.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c David Cheney. "Bishop Niccolò Petronio Caldana". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ a b Lausic, Ante (1989). "CALDANA, Nikola Petronij". Hrvatski biografski leksikon (in Croatian). Leksikograski Zavod Miroslav Krleza. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ^ a b Stancovich, Pietro (1829). Biografia Degli Uomini Distinti Dell'Istria (in Italian). Vol. 3. Trieste. pp. 258–259.
- ^ Quondam, Amedeo (1973). "Caldana, Marco Petronio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 16: Caccianiga–Caluso (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- ^ Grah, Ivan (1983). "Izvještaji porečkih biskupa Svetoj Stolici (1588-1775)". Croatica Christiana periodica (in Croatian). 7 (12): 24.