Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Thomas Cammerota | |
Bishop of Vieste | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Vieste |
Term: | 1589 |
Predecessor: | José Esteve Juan |
Successor: | Maschio Ferracuti |
Consecration: | 26 July 1589 |
Consecrated By: | Girolamo Bernerio |
Death Date: | September 1589 |
Death Place: | Vieste, Italy |
Thomas Cammerota O.P. (also Tommaso Malatesta) (died September, 1589) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Vieste (1589).[1] [2]
Thomas Cammerota was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. On 17 July 1589, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Sixtus V as Bishop of Vieste. On 26 July 1589, he was consecrated bishop by Girolamo Bernerio, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, with Girolamo Bevilacqua, Titular Archbishop of Nazareth, and Gaspare Pasquali, Bishop of Ruvo, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Vieste until his death in September 1589.