ORMANETO, NICCOLÒ

ORMANETO, NICCOLÒ. - Bishop of Padua, from Verona, b. at the beginning of the 16th century, d. 17 or 18 June 1577. In 1553, as legate in England, he assisted Card. 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 Card. Pole was removed from it by Paul IV.
He accompanied Card. Navagero, one of the papal legates to the Council of Trent, and in 1563 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 sent him to Rome in June 1566 as his representative in the Congregation for the reform of the Roman clergy. He was thus one of the finest instruments of the reforming activity of Pius V. In 1572 Gregory XIII sent him as nuncio to Spain, where he carried out vigorous activity in reforming the Spanish monasteries.