Giuseppe Maria Bonaldi

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Giuseppe Maria Bonaldi or Buonaldi (Italian: Giuseppe Maria Bonaldi, Croatian: Josip Marija Bonaldi, Latin: Iosephus Maria Bonaldus) was the Archbishop of Bar in 1646–1653.[1]

Life and ministry

He was born in Zadar (Zara) in 1605.[2] He entered in the Dominican Order and he studied in Rome.[3] He worked as a missionary in the diocese of Trebinje, and in 1644 he sent to Propaganda Fide a report on the local religious life under the Ottoman Empire.[4] In 1644 he was appointed professor of theology in the Dominican convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.[2]

Pope Innocent X appointed Bonaldi as the Archbishop of Bar (Antivari) on 10 September 1646,[5] with an annual income of 200 Roman scudi.[6] On Sunday 25 November 1646 he was consecrated bishop in the Venetian church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo by the Patriarch of Venice Giovan Francesco Morosini.[5]

With the bishops from Ottoman-controlled lands, Bonaldi forged plans for freedom, presenting them to the Venetian admiral, Leonardo Foscolo. He participated to the conquest of Klis by Foscolo in 1648.[4] The following year, Foscolo turned to southern Montenegro, unloading his guns near Antivari. However, the Ottoman army was awaiting his arrival to which Foscolo retreated. By then, a pogrom among Bar's Catholic population occurred, in which a large number of Catholics converted to Islam.[7] Bonaldi lived in the region of Paštrovići, where he converted many Muslims to Catholicism.[7] He returned in Rome in 1648 up to the next year when he returned in Dalmatia.[3]

Bonaldi died from tuberculosis[7] in November 1653.[6] He was buried in the cathedral of Budva.[4] After his death, the Archbishopric of Bar was temporarily administered by Pjetër Bogdani, Bishop of Scutari.[7]

References

  1. 1.Marko Jačov (1998). missioni cattoliche nei Balcani durante le due grandi guerre. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. ISBN 978-88-210-0689-0.... Bonaldus, Buonaldus) Gioseppe Maria (Joseph Maria), arcivescovo di Antivari (1646-1652)
  2. 2.[2.2]Sanjek, Franjo (2008). Dominikanci i Hrvati: osam stoljeća zajedništva : (13.-21. stoljeće) (in Croatian). Kršćanska sadašnjost. p. 258.
  3. 3.[3.2]Cavalieri, Michele (1696). Galleria de sommi Pontefici, Patriarchi, Arcivescovi e Vescovi dell'Ordine de Predicatori (in Italian). Vol. 1. Benevento. p. 601.
  4. 4.[4.2][4.3]Sanjek, Franjo (1989). "Bonaldi, Josip". Hrvatski biografski leksikon (in Croatian). Leksikograski Zavod Miroslav Krleza. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  5. 5.[5.2]David Cheney. "Archbishop Giuseppe Maria Bonaldi, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  6. 6.[6.2]Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 86. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  7. 7.[7.2][7.3][7.4]Rastoder, Šerbo; Andrijašević, Živko, eds. (2006). "Barska nadbiskupija i barski nadbiskupi". Istorijski leksikon Crne Gore: A-Crn (in Croatian). Daily Press. ISBN 9788677061654.