Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Teofilo Testa | |
Bishop of Tropea | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Tropea |
Term: | 1692–1695 |
Predecessor: | Francisco de Figueroa (bishop) |
Successor: | Juan Lorenzo Ibáñez de Arilla |
Consecration: | 18 December 1655 |
Consecrated By: | Ferdinando d'Adda |
Birth Date: | 12 September 1631 |
Death Date: | 21 October 1695 |
Death Place: | Tropea, Italy |
Teofilo Testa, O.F.M. Obs. (1631–1695) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Tropea (1692–1695).[1]
Teofilo Testa was born in S. Pauli, Italy on 12 September 1631 and ordained a priest in the Order of Observant Friars Minor.[2] On 25 June 1692, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Tropea.On 18 December 1655, he was consecrated bishop by Ferdinando d'Adda, Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente, with Tommaso de Franchi, Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, and Francesco Antonio Triveri, Bishop of Andria, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Tropea until his death on 21 October 1695.