Giuseppe Maria Bonaldi or Buonaldi (Italian: Giuseppe Maria Bonaldi, Croatian: Josip Marija Bonaldi, Latin: Iosephus Maria Bonaldus) was the Archbishop of Bar in 1646–1653.[1]
With the bishops from Ottoman-controlled lands, Bonaldi forged plans for freedom, presenting them to the Venetian admiral, Leonardo Foscolo. He participated to the conquest of Klis by Foscolo in 1648.[4] The following year, Foscolo turned to southern Montenegro, unloading his guns near Antivari. However, the Ottoman army was awaiting his arrival to which Foscolo retreated. By then, a pogrom among Bar's Catholic population occurred, in which a large number of Catholics converted to Islam.[7] Bonaldi lived in the region of Paštrovići, where he converted many Muslims to Catholicism.[7] He returned in Rome in 1648 up to the next year when he returned in Dalmatia.[3]
^ abcSanjek, Franjo (1989). "Bonaldi, Josip". Hrvatski biografski leksikon (in Croatian). Leksikograski Zavod Miroslav Krleza. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ abGauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 86. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ abcdRastoder, Šerbo; Andrijašević, Živko, eds. (2006). "Barska nadbiskupija i barski nadbiskupi". Istorijski leksikon Crne Gore: A-Crn (in Croatian). Daily Press. ISBN9788677061654.