Tommaso Carafa

Tommaso Carafa (1588 – 7 December 1664) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Capaccio (1639–1664) and Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino (1623–1637).

Biography
Tommaso Carafa was born in 1588. On 20 November 1623, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino. On 26 November 1623, he was consecrated bishop by Cosimo de Torres, Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio, with Paolo Emilio Santori, Archbishop of Urbino, and Giuseppe Acquaviva, Titular Archbishop of Thebae, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino until his resignation in 1637. On 11 July 1639, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Capaccio. He served as Bishop of Capaccio until his death on 7 December 1664.

Episcopal succession
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: • Alessandro Sibilia, Bishop of Capri (1637);

• Maximilianus Raguzzi, Bishop of Vulturara e Montecorvino (1637);

• Carlo Maranta, Bishop of Giovinazzo (1637);

• Domenico Giordani, Bishop of Isernia (1637);

• Bruno Sciamanna, Bishop of Lucera (1637);

• Giovanni Spennazzi, Bishop of Pienza (1637);

• Jean Duval, Bishop of Baghdad (1638);

• Simone Carafa Roccella, Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera (1638);

• Juan Pastor, Bishop of Crotone (1638);

• Francesco Boccapaduli, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona (1638);

• Pietro Paolo Bonsi, Bishop of Acerno (1638);

• Angelo Pichi, Archbishop of Amalfi (1638);

• Stefano Sauli, Archbishop of Chieti (1638);

• Diego Sersale, Archbishop of Bari (1638);

• Enea di Cesare Spennazzi, Bishop of Sovana (1638);

• Girolamo Figini-Oddi, Bishop of Teramo (1639);

• Patrizio Donati, Bishop of Minori (1639);

• Bartolomeo Cresconi, Bishop of Umbriatico (1639);

• Pietro Paolo Medici, Bishop of Alife (1639);

• Girolamo Farnese, Titular Archbishop of Patrae (1639);

• Giovanni Tommaso Perrone, Bishop of Nicastro (1639);

• Ippolito Andreassi, Bishop of Terni (1639);

• Francesco d'Elia e Rossi, Bishop of Siracusa (1639);

• Orazio Monaldi, Bishop of Gubbio (1639);

• Camillo Ragona, Bishop of Acerno (1644); and

• Giulio Spinola, Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia (1658).

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