Giovanni Loredan (lat. ''Ioannes Lauredanus'') was a

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nobleman of the

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. He served as the Bishop of Capo d'Istria (today

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) from 1390 until his death on 11 April 1411. From 1354 he was the presbyter of

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. He was appointed Bishop of Capo d'Istria on 21 November 1390. According to several church chronologies, before that he was also a bishop in Venice, in what was then the Diocese of Castello. It is recorded that in 1391 he dedicated the church of St. George in Koper. He was buried in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Koper. In some historical sources he is mentioned under the name of ''Giacomo'' or the Slovenian ''Jakob''.

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