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Niccolò Petronio Count Caldana (Italian: Niccolò Petronio Caldana, Croatian: Nikola Petronij Caldana, died 1670) was Bishop of Poreč from 1667 to 1670.

Life

Niccolò Petronio Caldana was born in Piran at the beginning of 17th century. He graduated in utroque iure at the University of Padua, where he used to teach and for two turns he served as provost of that university. He served Pope Alexander VII as envoy at the court of Leopold I where he remained for ten years. He was member of the court of Cardinal Carlo Carafa della Spina. He served also as general commissioner of the Papal army. Living in Bologna, he raised his two orphan nephews, one of them was the poet Marco Petronio Caldana .

On 25 June 1646 he was appointed by Pope Alexander VII Bishop of Poreč. Therefore, on Sunday 15 May 1667 he was consecrated bishop in the monastic church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Murano by Daniel Delfino, coadjutor patriarch of Aquileia. After a few years of residence in Poreč, on the way to Rome, he died in Piran in October 1670, and he was buried in that town.

References

1. ^ David Cheney. "Bishop Niccolò Petronio Caldana". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
2. ^ Lausic, Ante (1989). "CALDANA, Nikola Petronij". Hrvatski biografski leksikon (in Croatian). Leksikograski Zavod Miroslav Krleza. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
3. ^ Stancovich, Pietro (1829). Biografia Degli Uomini Distinti Dell'Istria (in Italian). Vol. 3. Trieste. pp. 258–259.
4. Quondam, Amedeo (1973). "Caldana, Marco Petronio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 16: Caccianiga–Caluso (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
5. Grah, Ivan (1983). "Izvještaji porečkih biskupa Svetoj Stolici (1588-1775)". Croatica Christiana periodica (in Croatian). 7 (12): 24.

• 1670 deaths
• 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Croatia
• 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Republic of Venice
• People from Piran