Clemente d'Olera

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

Clemente d'Olera was born in the Castle of Moneglia on 20 June 1501. 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 Christian theology. He then spent several years studying philosophy 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 minister general in Corsica in 1545, with Giovanni Maltei da Calvi as his vicar general. He succeeded Maltei in that office after Maltei's death in 1547, with the permission of Pope Paul III. Also in 1547, at the general chapter of the order held in Assisi, 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 Salamanaca, 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.

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