Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Petrus Pitarca | |
Bishop of Termia | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Termia |
Term: | 1617–1622 |
Successor: | Cristóforo Chrisostome Carletti |
Consecration: | 3 September 1617 |
Consecrated By: | Pietro Aldobrandini |
Death Date: | 1622 |
Death Place: | Kythnos, Greece |
Petrus Pitarca (died 1622) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Termia (1617–1622).[1] [2] [3] [4]
Petrus Pitarca was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor. On 26 June 1617, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Bishop of Termia. On 3 September 1617, he was consecrated bishop by Pietro Aldobrandini, Archbishop of Ravenna, with Attilio Amalteo, Titular Archbishop of Athenae, and Giulio Sansedoni, Bishop Emeritus of Grosseto serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Termia until his death in 1622. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Gregorius Pedrocca, Bishop of Acqui (1620).