Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Dionisio Petra | |
Bishop of Capri | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Diocese of Capri |
Predecessor: | Paolo Pellegrini |
Successor: | Michele Gallo Vandeinde |
Birth Date: | 1630 |
Death Date: | June 1698 (age 68) |
Death Place: | Capri, Italy |
Dionisio Petra, O.S.B. (1630 – June 1698) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Capri (1683–1698).[1]
Dionisio Petra was born in Vasto Girardi, Italy in 1630 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict.[2] On 12 July 1683, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Bishop of Capri.He served as Bishop of Capri until his death in June 1698.