| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
| Giovanni Battista Capilupi | |
| Bishop of Polignano | |
| Church: | Catholic Church |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Polignano |
| Term: | 1694–1716 |
| Predecessor: | Ignatius Fiumi |
| Successor: | Pietro Antonio Pini |
| Ordination: | 5 March 1678 |
| Consecration: | 19 September 1694 |
| Consecrated By: | Bandino Panciatici |
| Birth Date: | 27 December 1653 |
| Birth Place: | Matera, Italy |
| Death Date: | 3 May 1716 (age 62) |
| Death Place: | Polignano, Italy |
Giovanni Battista Capilupi (27 December, 1643 – 3 May, 1716) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Polignano (1694–1716).[1] [2] [3] [4]
Giovanni Battista Capilupi was born in Matera, Italy on 27 December 1653.He was and ordained deacon on 21 March 1676 and ordained a priest on 5 March 1678.On 13 September 1694, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Polignano.On 19 September 1694, he was consecrated bishop by Bandino Panciatici, Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio, with Stefano Giuseppe Menatti, Bishop of Como, and Pierre Lambert Ledrou, Titular Bishop of Porphyreon, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Polignano until his death on 3 May 1716.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Giovanni Dominico Tomati, Titular Bishop of Cyrene (1700).