Alvise Michiel

Alvise Michiel was an Italian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Split-Makarska|Archdiocese of Split].

Biography

Alvise Michiel was born in 1513 to Maffio, a Venetian of noble family. He was appointed bishop of Split on 19 July 1566, and consecrated Bishop by Giovanni Delfino on 17 November 1566 in the church of San Michele in Isola. On 3 August 1575 he obtained the appointment of a coadjutor bishop.
In 1580 he was taken to trial charged by the Republic of Venice of embezzlement in acting as executor of a will, but the Holy See fiercely protected him, excommunicating the prosecutor and asking for a formal apology from the Republic.
Since 1575 Alvise Michiel retired to Venice, where he died on 25 September 1582.