Ugo Buoncompagni

Hello my name is Ugo Buoncompagni. I was born in Bologna, Italy on the seventh of January 1502. I studied jurisprudence at the University of Bologna where I graduated at an early age as doctor of canon and of civil law. I later taught jurisprudence at the same university. In 1539 I went to Rome by the request of Cardinal Parizzio. Pope Paul III appointed me to be the judge of the Capitol, and papal abbreviator. In 1545 Paul III sent me to the council of Trent as one of his jurists. The council was held for two main reasons: to determine the doctrines of the Church and to respond to the controversial and unorthodox opinion of the Protestants. When I returned to Rome I held a few different offices in the Roman Curia under Julius III, who appointed me prolegate of the Campagna in 1555. In 1558 I was appointed Bishop of Viesti. Before this time I wasn’t even ordained a priest. The next year I was sent back to the Council of Trent as Pope Pius IV’s confidential deputy for the...