He completed his studies earning a doctorate in utroque iure in the University of Padua in 1631 and then he moved to Rome.

The episcopal consecration followed on 4 September in the Venetian Church of Santa Croce alla Giudecca by the hands of Marco Giustiniani bishop of Verona.

He had to intervene several times to stop abuses and to ask the priests and lay people to order and morality.

He had an intense commitment to support, financially and with prayer, the Republic of Venice then engaged in the War of Candia.

He was buried in the church of San Nicola da Tolentino: the magnificent the funeral monument was erected by the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi.