Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Fabrizio Carafa | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Bitonto |
Term: | 1622–1651 |
Predecessor: | Giovanni Battista Stella |
Successor: | Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal) |
Consecration: | 6 February 1622 |
Consecrated By: | Francesco Sacrati (cardinal) |
Birth Date: | 1588 |
Birth Place: | Naples, Italy |
Death Date: | March 1651 (age 63) |
Death Place: | Bitonto, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Fabrizio Carafa (1588 – March, 1651) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Bitonto (1622–1651).[1] [2]
Fabrizio Carafa was born in Naples, Italy in 1588. On 24 January 1622, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XV as Bishop of Bitonto. On 6 February 1622, he was consecrated bishop by Francesco Sacrati (cardinal), Cardinal-Priest of San Matteo in Merulana, with Alfonso Giglioli, Bishop of Anglona-Tursi, and Carlo Bovi, Bishop of Bagnoregio, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Bitonto until his death in March 1651.