Girolamo Verallo: Difference between revisions

On August 20, 1540, he was elected [[Diocese of Bertinoro|Bishop of Bertinoro]].<ref name="bare_url" /> On June 17, 1541, he was named nuncio to [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand, King of the Romans]], holding this position until 1545.<ref name="bare_url" /> On November 14, 1541, he was transferred to the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Caserta|see of Caserta]].<ref name="bare_url" /> In August 1542, he traveled to [[Nuremberg]] with [[Otto Truchsess von Waldburg]] to present the [[Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)|Imperial Diet]] with the [[papal bull]] ''Initio nostri huius pontificatus'' (issued May 22, 1542) calling the [[Council of Trent]], set to begin on November 1, 1542, and to attempt to convince German and Hungarian bishops to attend the council.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was promoted to the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati|metropolitan see of Rossano]] on November 14, 1544.<ref name="bare_url" /> He was nuncio in [[Austria]] from February 1545 to 1547.<ref name="bare_url" />

 

 

He participated in the [[Papal conclave, 1549–1550|papal conclave of 1549-50]] that elected [[Pope Julius III]].<ref name="bare_url" /> He resigned the see of Rossano and Capaccio in favor of his brother, Paolo Emilio Verallo, in 1551.<ref name="bare_url" /> The new pope made him [[Papal_legate#Legatus_a_Latere|legate ''a latere'']] to [[Henry II of France]] on September 9, 1551 to negotiate an end to the [[War of Parma]] between French troops and the [[Duchy of Parma]].<ref name="bare_url" /> During this mission, he was accompanied by his relative Giambattista Castagna, future [[Pope Urban VII]], who served as a [[Apostolic Dataria|datary]].<ref name="bare_url" /> On September 18, 1551, Pope Julius III gave him the Palace of [[Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine]] (though not the church property) ''ad vitam''.<ref name="bare_url" /> From 1552 to 1553, he was [[Prefect]] of the [[Apostolic Signatura]] and a member of the [[Roman Inquisition]].<ref name="bare_url" /> He opted for the titular church of [[San Marcello al Corso]] on November 29, 1553.<ref name="bare_url" />