Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Luca Castellini | |
Bishop of Catanzaro | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Catanzaro |
Term: | 1629–1631 |
Predecessor: | Fabrizio Caracciolo Piscizi |
Successor: | Consalvo Caputo |
Consecration: | 25 November 1629 |
Consecrated By: | Antonio Marcello Barberini |
Death Date: | 1631 |
Death Place: | Catanzaro, Italy |
Luca Castellini, O.P. or Lucas Castellini (died 1631) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Catanzaro (1629–1631).[1]
Luca Castellini was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers.[2] A competent theologian, he was elected Procurator of the Dominican Order, and then, in 1611, Vicar General.[3]
On 19 November 1629, he was appointed by Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Catanzaro. On 25 November 1629, he was consecrated bishop by Antonio Marcello Barberini, Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Onofrio.
He served as Bishop of Catanzaro for only fourteen months, until his death in 1631.
While bishop he was the principal co-consecrator of Marcantonio Bragadin (cardinal), Bishop of Crema (1629).
He was the author of De electione et confirmatione canonica praelatorum, and De canonizatione sanctorum: Tractatus de miraculis.[3]