Girolamo Seripando

Girolamo Seripando (6 May 1493 – 17 March 1563) was a prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Salerno.

Quotes about Girolamo Seripando

• Seripando displayed burning zeal, working especially to bring about a thorough reform of his order and to purge it of the Lutheran elements which had penetrated into it. During the first period of the Council of Trent, Seripando had played a most distinguished part.
  • Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes (1891)

• The best elements of humanism and Christianity were united in him.
  • Reginald Vere Laurence, The Cambridge Modern History (1904)

• He distinguished himself by his zeal for the purity of the text of Holy Writ, and also by his peculiar views concerning original sin and justification.
  • Francis Ernest Gigot, Girolamo Seripando (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia