Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Andrea Bonito | |
Bishop of Capaccio | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1677–1674 |
Predecessor: | Camillo Ragona |
Successor: | Giovanni Battista De Pace |
Consecration: | 20 June 1677 |
Consecrated By: | Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal) |
Birth Date: | 1619 |
Birth Place: | Amalfi, Italy |
Death Date: | 2 February 1684 (age 65) |
Death Place: | Capaccio, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Andrea Bonito, C.O. (1619 – 2 February 1684) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Capaccio (1677–1674).[1]
Andrea Bonito was born in Amalfi, Italy, in 1619 and ordained a priest in the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.[2] On 14 June 1677, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Capaccio. On 20 June 1677, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal), Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, with Carlo Vaini, Titular Archbishop of Nicaea, and Prospero Bottini, Titular Archbishop of Myra, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Capaccio until his death on 2 February 1684.