Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Simeone de Summis | |
Bishop of Sapë | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Sapë |
Term: | 1647–1672 |
Predecessor: | Gjergj Bardhi (Giorgio Bianchi) |
Successor: | Stefano de Gaspare |
Consecration: | 2 June 1647 |
Consecrated By: | Pier Luigi Carafa |
Death Date: | December 1672 |
Death Place: | Sapë, Albania |
Simeone de Summis, O.F.M. or Simon Suma (died 1672) was an Albanian[1] Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Sapë (1647–1672).[2] [3] [4] [5]
Born in Krujë, Suma was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.On 27 May 1647, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Sapë.On 2 June 1647, he was consecrated bishop by Pier Luigi Carafa, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti, with Ranuccio Scotti Douglas, Bishop of Borgo San Donnino, and Alessandro Vittrici, Bishop of Alatri, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Sapë until his death in December 1672.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Ivan Antun Zboronac, Bishop of Kotor (1656).