Bishop Nicolò Albergati (jan 1, 1417 – jan 1, 1443)

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The most important cleric for Bolognese confraternal reform was Nicolò Albergati, Bishop of Bologna fro m1417 to 1443, who can be credited with fostering at least four groups and reforming six others.

Born into a prominent Bolognese family in 1357, Nicolò Albergati joined the Carthusian order in 1394 and was serving as Prior of the Certosa outside Bologna when he was elected by the Cathedral Canons to be Bishop of Bologna in 1417. The election’s questionable legality, coming after the deposition of Popes John XXIII and Boniface XIII and before the election of Martin V, initially gave him trouble with the restored papacy. These tensions notwithstanding, Pope Martin confirmed the episcopal election when he realized Ablergati could be a loyal and indispensable diplomat assisting the papacy’s post-schism restoration.
[Terpstra, Lay Confraternities, 19]

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