Clemente d'Olera (20 June 1501 – 6 January 1568) was an Italian Roman Catholic who became Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor,

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and bishop.

Biography

Clemente d'Olera was born in the Castle of

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on 20 June 1501.Salvador Miranda, ''Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church''
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/ref> He joined the Order of Friars Minor Observants at a young age, spending his youth in the service of the Franciscans. He then moved to Bologna to study

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. He then spent several years studying

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and theology in the religious houses of his order. In 1538, he was elected provincial superior of his order for Bologna, then he became definitor and procurator in Mantua in 1541. He became the order's

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in 1545, with

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as his vicar general. He succeeded Maltei in that office after Maltei's death in 1547, with the permission of

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. Also in 1547, at the general chapter of the order held in

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, he became prefect of the Franciscan ''Famiglia Cismontana''. At the general chapter held in Bologna in 1550, he was elected commissary of the curia. At the 1553 general chapter held in Salamanca, he was elected Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor. As minister general, he promulgated the ''Constitutiones Salmanticenses'' in 1554. On 1 January 1555 Pope Julius III named him his commissary against heresy for anywhere he traveled except Spain. Pope Paul IV made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of 15 March 1557. He received the

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and the titular church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on 24 March 1557. He became

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of Rapallo in 1558. The pope also made him prefect of the Holy Office. He participated in the papal conclave of 1559 that elected

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. On 13 March 1560 he was elected Bishop of Foligno. He set up a printing press in the episcopal palace to publish works defending the faith. He participated in the papal conclave of 1565-66 that elected Pope Pius V. He continued to serve in the Holy Office and became the cardinal protector of the Holy Roman Empire. He died in the Franciscan convent of

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after a long illness on 6 January 1568. He was buried in his titular church. He left his wealth to the infirm of the hospital of San Giacomo degli Incurabili.

References

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