Giampaolo Dolfin

Giampaolo Dolfin

Bishop of Bergamo
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Bergamo
In office28 July 1777 – 19 May 1819
PredecessorMarco Molin
SuccessorPietro Mola
Previous postBishop of Ceneda (1774-1777)
Orders
Ordination3 December 1758
Consecration3 July 1774
by Ludovico Calini
Personal details
Born(1736-01-03)3 January 1736
Died19 May 1819(1819-05-19) (aged 83)
Styles of
Giampaolo Dolfin
Reference styleThe Most Reverend
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleMonsignor
Posthumous stylenone

Giampaolo Dolfin[1] (3 January 1736 – 19 May 1819) was a Roman Catholic prelate who became Bishop of Bergamo from 1777 to 1819.

Life

Born[2] in Sebenico (now Šibenik, Croatia), he joined the Canons Regular of the Lateran and in 1774 was appointed Bishop of Ceneda. Three years later, Pope Pius VI named him Bishop of Bergamo. In the first years of his tenure he tried to establish good relations with the Republic of Venice, the ruling power of the territory of his diocese. After the French Revolution and the occupation of Bergamo by the French Empire, Dolfin was one of the few bishops who did not try to prevent the seizure of church properties by the French. Dolfin died in 1819 when Bergamo was part of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.

See also

References

  1. ↑ From Catholic Hierarchy website
  2. ↑ From an Italian website
  • Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Bergamo". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 15, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]
  • Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Bergamo". GCatholic.org. Retrieved June 15, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]