Vittore Capello Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Vittore Capello
Titular Bishop of Famagusta
Church:Catholic Church
Term:1633–1648
Predecessor:Germanicus Mantica
Successor:Gerolamo Gradenigo
Consecration:31 Jul 1633
Consecrated By:Bernardino Spada
Birth Date:1588
Birth Place:Venice, Italy
Death Date:1648 (age 60)

Vittore Capello, C.R.S. (1588–1648) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of Famagusta (1633–1648).[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Vittore Capello was born in 1588 in Venice, Italy and ordained a priest in the Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha.On 20 Jun 1633, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Titular Bishop of Famagusta.On 31 Jul 1633, he was consecrated bishop by Bernardino Spada, Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio, with Ettore Diotallevi, Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti, and Alessandro Filonardi, Bishop of Aquino, serving as co-consecrators. He remained as Titular Bishop of Famagusta until his death in 1648.

Notes and References

  1. Book: HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol IV. Gauchat. Patritius (Patrice). 184. 1935. Libraria Regensbergiana. Münster. (in Latin)
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcapllov.html "Bishop Vittore Capello, C.R.S."
  3. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2f04.html "Famagusta (Titular See)"