Nationality Venetian | Died Republic of Venice | |
Church Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (until 1690)
Roman Catholic Church (since 1690) Elected by 1685 (Orthodox); 1690 (Catholic) In office 1685–90 (Orthodox); 1690–1713 (Catholic) | ||
Meletius Tipaldi (Italian: Meletio Tipaldi, Serbo-Croatian: Melentije/Meletije Tipaldi, Serbian Cyrillic: Мелентије Типалди; fl. 1685–13 May 1713) was a bishop in Venetian Dalmatia. Until 1690, he served the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, thence the Roman Catholic Church after accepting Uniatism, having called on Orthodox Christians to subjugate to Rome on 13 September 1690.
As the Archbishop of Philadelphia under the Patriarchate of Constantinople, he was the head of the Orthodox Christian population in Venetian territory, thus was recognized as the head of Orthodox Serbs in Dalmatia. The Catholic Church and Venetian government had pressured him to accept Uniatism. In order to ease the Uniatism of Orthodox Dalmatians, Tipaldi met with Nikodim Busović, a monk at the Krka Monastery, and had him appointed the bishop of Dalmatia in 1693. Nikodim would however resist Uniatism and be recognized as a Serbian Orthodox exarch. Tipaldi was excluded from the Orthodox church in 1712.