ORMANETO, NICCOLÒ. - Bishop of Padua, from Verona, b. at the beginning of the 16th century, d. on 17 or 18 June 1577. In 1553, as legate in England, he assisted Cardinal Pole in his work of reforming the clergy and the University of Oxford. He returned to Rome in 1557 to report on the legation, when Cardinal Pole was removed from it by Paul IV.

He followed Cardinal Navagero, one of the pontifical legates at the Council of Trent, and in 1563 he was sent by the legates on a mission to Albert V of Bavaria. He then moved to Milan and became one of the most trusted advisers of St. Charles Borromeo, who in June 1566 sent him to Rome as his representative in the Congregation for the reform of the Roman clergy. He was thus one of the best instruments of the reforming action of Pius V. In 1572 Gregory XIII sent him as nuncio to Spain, where he carried out an energetic activity in the reform of Spanish monasteries.

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BIBL.: Pastor, VII, VIII and IX, passim; F. M. Carini, Mons. N. O. veronese, vescovo di Padova, nunzio apostolico alla corte di Filippo II re di Spagna 1572-77, Rome 1894; C. Robinson, N.O., London 1920.

Roberto Palmarocchi

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Ormaneto, Niccolò

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