Giovanni Michiel

Giovanni Michiel (* 1446 or 1447, died 1503) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop.

Giovanni Michiel was born in Venice sometime between April 1446 and April 1447, the son of Lorenzo Michiel and Nicolosa Barbo, sister of the future Pope Paul II. A cousin, Giovanni Battista Zeno, was also a cardinal (1468).

Early in his career, Michiel served as a protonotary apostolic. During this time, he lived with his uncle in the Apostolic Palace.

His uncle made him a cardinal deacon in the consistory of November 21, 1468. He received the red hat and the deaconry of Santa Lucia in Septisolio on November 22, 1468. He opted for the deaconry of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria ca. 1470.

He was named Bishop of Verona in commendam on March 18, 1471; his entry into the see was delayed by the conflict between the Republic of Venice and the Holy See, but then occupied the office until his death.

He participated in the papal conclave of 1471 that elected Pope Sixtus IV. He left Rome with the pope on June 10, 1476 because of an outbreak of bubonic plague, traveling to Viterbo and Foligno; they returned to Rome on October 23. He opted to become a cardinal priest ca. 1484, taking the titular church of San Marcello al Corso, though retaining Sant'Angelo in Pescheria in commendam.

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