Lorenzo Priuli | |
|---|---|
| Cardinal, Patriarch of Venice | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Patriarch of Venice |
| Appointed | 7 January 1591 |
| Term ended | 26 January 1600 |
| Predecessor | Giovanni Trevisan |
| Successor | Matteo Zane |
| Other post(s) | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina (1596–1600) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1590 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 27 January 1591 (Bishop) by Marcello Acquaviva |
| Created cardinal | 5 June 1596 by Pope Clement VIII |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 August 1538 |
| Died | 26 January 1600 (aged 61) Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Buried | San Pietro di Castello, Venice |
Lorenzo Priuli (9 August 1538 – 26 January 1600) was Venetian aristocrat and ambassador in France and at Rome. He was Patriarch of Venice from 1591 to his death, and a Cardinal from 1596.[1]
In the last centuries of the Republic of Venice (to 1797), exceptionally among Catholic bishops, the patriarch was elected by the Venetian Senate, who always chose a member of one of the hereditary patrician families of the city, and usually a layman who was only ordained to take up the patriarchate. The papacy obliged them to pass an examination in theology, though many evaded this.[2] Usually the new patriarch was a Venetian diplomat or administrator, as with Lorenzo Priuli in 1591 or Francesco Vendramin in 1608, though some were career clerics, who had usually been previously in positions in Rome, like Federico Cornaro in 1631.