Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Andrea Caputo | |
Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano |
Term: | 1625–1650 |
Predecessor: | Francesco Brusco |
Successor: | Onofrio de Ponte |
Consecration: | 31 July 1622 |
Consecrated By: | Marco Antonio Gozzadini |
Birth Place: | Naples, Italy |
Death Date: | March 1650 |
Death Place: | Lettere, Italy |
Andrea Caputo (died March 1650) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano (1625–1650) and Titular Bishop of Constantia in Arabia (1622–1625).
Andrea Caputo was born in Naples, Italy. On 11 July 1622, Andrea Caputo was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XV as Coadjutor Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano and Titular Bishop of Constantia in Arabia.On 31 July 1622, he was consecrated bishop by Marco Antonio Gozzadini, Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio, with Baldassare Cagliares, Bishop of Malta, and Alessandro Bosco, Bishop of Carinola, serving as co-consecrators. In 1625, he succeeded to the bishopric of Lettere-Gragnano.He served as Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano until his death in March 1650.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Antonio Bonfiglioli, Bishop of Carinola (1622); and Giacinto Petroni, Bishop of Molfetta (1622).