Name

Gregorio Barbarigo

Original name

Gregorio Giovanni Gaspare Barbarigo

Main activity

Prelate

Secondary activity

Title

Saint, Cardinal, Bishop of Padua, Bishop of Bergamo

Name variations

Barbarigo, Gregorio"

Education place

Padua

Education institution

University of Padua

Activity place

Padua, Vatican City

Activity institution

Diocese of Padua, Vatican City

Activity start date

1664

Activity end date

1691

Place of birth

Venice

Date of birth

1625

Place of death

Padua

Date of death

1697

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/W8V4AJZW/tags/Barbarigo%2C%20Gregorio/collection

Descriptive card

He was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who served as the Bishop of Bergamo and later as the Bishop of Padua. He was a frontrunner in both the 1689 and 1691 papal conclaves as he had distinguished himself for his diplomatic and scholastic service, especially for the reunification of the Oriental Churches. In 1664 he reformed the Seminary of Padua for the education of the clergy, including the teaching of oriental languages such as Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. From 1684 the Seminary had itsown Typography, provided with Oriental types obtained from the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III (previously used for the editions of the Typographia Medicea) and from cardinal Federico Borromeo; there he promoted the edition of the Alcoranus Textus Universus (Prodromus and Refutatio Alcorani) by Ludovico Marracci, which was printed in 1698, one year after Barbarigo's death.

Entry author

Sara Fani