Giacomo Nacchiante [SEP] place of birth
Giacomo Nacchiante
Giacomo Nacchiante, O.P. (Jacopo Nacchianti, Naclantus) (born 1502 at Florence; died at Chioggia, 6 May 1569) was an Italian Dominican theologian who served as Bishop of Chioggia (1544-1569).
Early Biography.
Giacomo Nacchiante was born in Florence, Italy. He was placed by his father under the protection of the superintendent of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence's foundling hospital, in 1509.
Formation.
Nacchiante joined the Dominican Order at the convent of San Marco,
Roman Catholic Diocese of Chioggia
The Italian Catholic Diocese of Chioggia () is in the Veneto. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Venice.
History.
Chioggia in antiquity was known as Fossa Clodia; in the Middle Ages as Clugia. In 1106, Enrico Grancarolo, Bishop of the island of Malamocco, then nearly deserted, transferred his see to Chioggia.
Other bishops were:
- Giacomo Nacchiante (1544)
- the Dominican Marco Medici (1578), a theologian at the Council of