Girolamo Verallo

Girolamo Verallo (1497–1555) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Girolamo Verallo was born in Cori, Lazio in 1497, the son of Girolamo Veralli, a Roman physician, and Giulia Jacovazzi. He was the nephew of Cardinal Domenico Giacobazzi.

After studying law, he traveled to Rome and became a referendary of the Apostolic Signatura. On November 26, 1534, he became an auditor of the Roman Rota. He also became an auditor of the Apostolic Palace. With Latino Giovenale Manetti, he was sent as part of a diplomatic mission in 1535 to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Francis I of France concerning ownership of the Camerino following the death of Giovanni Maria Varano, the last Duke of Camerino. From 1537 to February 1540, he was nuncio to the Republic of Venice. He was a protector of Ignatius of Loyola and the first Jesuits.

On August 20, 1540, he was elected Bishop of Bertinoro. On June 17, 1541, he was named nuncio to Ferdinand, King of the Romans, holding this position until 1545. On November 14, 1541, he was transferred to the see of Caserta. In August 1542, he traveled to Nuremberg with Otto Truchsess von Waldburg to present the Imperial Diet with the papal bull Initio nostri huius pontificatus (issued May 22, 1542) calling the Council of Trent, set to begin on November 1, 1542, and to attempt to convince German and Hungarian bishops to attend the council. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Rossano on November 14, 1544. He was nuncio in Austria from February 1545 to 1547.

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