Borromeo made his formal entry into Milan as archbishop on 23 September 1565.
Borromeo was formally appointed archbishop of Milan on after the former archbishop Ippolito II d'Este waived his claims on that archbishopric, but he was only allowed by the pope to leave Rome one year later. After his decision to put into practice the role of bishop, he decided to be ordained priest (4 September 1563) and on 7 December 1563 he was consecrated bishop in the Sistine Chapel by Cardinal Giovanni Serbelloni. Archbishop of Milan īorromeo was appointed an administrator of the Archdiocese of Milan on 7 February 1560. His brother's death, along with his contacts with the Jesuits and the Theatines and the example of bishops such as Bartholomew of Braga, were the causes of the conversion of Borromeo towards a more strict and operative Christian life, and his aim became to put into practice the dignity and duties of the bishop as drafted by the recent Council of Trent. His family urged Borromeo to seek permission to return to the lay state ( laicization), to marry and have children so that the family name would not become extinct, but he decided not to leave the ecclesiastic state. On 19 November 1562, his older brother, Federico, suddenly died. In 1561, Borromeo founded and endowed a college at Pavia, today known as Almo Collegio Borromeo, which he dedicated to Justina of Padua. He had a large share in the making of the Tridentine Catechism ( Catechismus Romanus). īorromeo organized the third and last session of the Council of Trent, in 1562–63. ĭuring his four years in Rome, Borromeo lived in austerity, obliged the Roman Curia to wear black, and established an academy of learned persons, the Academy of the Vatican Knights, publishing their memoirs as the Noctes Vaticanae. He was also brought into the government of the Papal States and appointed a supervisor of the Franciscans, Carmelites and Knights of Malta. Shortly thereafter, on 31 January 1560, the pope created him cardinal, and thus Borromeo as cardinal-nephew was entrusted with both the public and the privy seal of the ecclesiastical state. The newly elected pope required his nephew to come to Rome, and on 13 January 1560 appointed him protonotary apostolic. On 25 December 1559 Borromeo's uncle Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Medici was elected as Pope Pius IV. After a time, he resumed his studies, and on 6 December 1559, he earned a doctorate in canon and civil law. In 1554 his father died, and although he had an elder brother, Count Federico, he was requested by the family to take the management of their domestic affairs. Due to a slight speech impediment, he was regarded as slow but his thoroughness and industry meant that he made rapid progress. The young man attended the University of Pavia, where he applied himself to the study of civil and canon law. Borromeo made plain to his father that all revenues from the abbey beyond what was required to prepare him for a career in the church belonged to the poor and could not be applied to secular use. Gratinian and Felin, one of the ancient perquisites of the family. At this time his paternal uncle Giulio Cesare Borromeo turned over to him the income from the rich Benedictine abbey of Sts. īorromeo received the tonsure when he was about twelve years old. The second son in a family of six children, he was born in the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore 36 miles from Milan on 2 October 1538. His mother Margaret was a member of the Milan branch of the House of Medici. Borromeo's father Gilbert was Count of Arona. The family coat of arms included the Borromean rings, which are sometimes taken to symbolize the Holy Trinity. He is honoured as a saint by the Catholic Church, with a feast day on 4 November.īorromeo was a descendant of nobility the Borromeo family was one of the most ancient and wealthy in Lombardy, made famous by several notable men, both in the church and state. In that role he was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests. He was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat against the Protestant Reformation together with Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri. Charles Borromeo ( Italian: Carlo Borromeo Latin: Carolus Borromeus 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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