Zaccaria Delfino

Zaccaria Delfino
Coat of arms of Cardinal Zaccaria Delfino

Zaccaria Delfino (1527–1584) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Biography

Zaccaria Delfino was born in Venice on March 29, 1527, the son of a Venetian patrician family.[1] He was educated at the University of Padua.[1]

In 1550, he moved to Rome and was ordained as a priest.[1] During the pontificate of Pope Julius III, he was a papal prelate.[1] Under Pope Paul IV, he was a protonotary apostolic.[1]

On May 5, 1553, he was elected as Bishop of Hvar.[1] He was nuncio in the Holy Roman Empire from February 7, 1554 to August 1555.[1] In January 1555, he accompanied Cardinal Giovanni Morone, papal legate a latere to the Diet of Augsburg.[1] Upon the death of Pope Julius III, Cardinal Morone and Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg returned to Rome for the papal conclave, leaving Bishop Delfino as the only papal representative at the Diet.[1] In July 1555, he traveled to Rome to report on the Diet to Pope Paul IV.[1] The new pope named him nuncio to Ferdinand I. He was nuncio to the Habsburg Monarchy from March 22, 1561 until October 1565.[1] He participated in the Council of Trent 1562-63 and was charged with conveying the decisions of the Council to the German bishops.[1]

Pope Pius IV made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of March 12, 1565.[1] He received the red hat and the titular church of Santa Maria in Aquiro (a deaconry raised pro illa vice to the status of title) on September 7, 1565.[1]

He participated in the papal conclave of 1565-66 that elected Pope Pius V, but not in the papal conclave of 1572 that elected Pope Gregory XIII.[1] In 1573, he became vice-protector of Germany and president of the Congregatio Germanica.[1]

He resigned the government of Hvar sometime before March 22, 1574.[1] On April 15, 1578, he opted for the titular church of Santo Stefano Rotondo, and later for Sant'Anastasia al Palatino on August 17, 1579.[1] He was Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from January 8, 1582 to January 10, 1583.[1]

He died in Rome on December 19, 1583.[1] He was buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva.[1]

References

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