Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Nikola Zorzi | |
Bishop of Hvar | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Hvar |
Term: | 1635–1644 |
Predecessor: | Pietro Cedolini |
Successor: | Vincenzo Milani |
Consecration: | 4 March 1635 |
Consecrated By: | Giulio Cesare Sacchetti |
Birth Date: | 1574 |
Death Date: | 1644 |
Nationality: | Croatian |
Nikola Jurjević (1574–1644) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Hvar (1635–1644).[1] [2]
Jurjević was born in Hvar, Croatia in 1574. On 12 February 1635, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Hvar. On 4 March 1635, he was consecrated bishop by Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, Bishop of Fano, with Giovanni Delfino, Bishop Emeritus of Belluno, and Giovanni Thomas Marnavich, Bishop of Bosnia, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Hvar until his death in 1644. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Girolamo Lucich, Bishop of Drivasto (1636).