Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Giacomo Accarisi | |
Bishop of Vieste | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Term: | 1644–1654 |
Predecessor: | Paolo Ciera |
Successor: | Giovanni Mastelloni |
Consecration: | 13 November 1644 |
Consecrated By: | Cesare Facchinetti |
Death Date: | 1654 |
Death Place: | Vieste, Italy |
Giacomo Accarisi (1599-1653) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Vieste (1644–1654).[1] [2]
Giacomo Accarisi was born in 1599.On 17 October 1644, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of Vieste.On 13 November 1644, he was consecrated bishop by Cesare Facchinetti, Bishop of Senigallia, with Patrizio Donati, Bishop of Minori, and Bartolomeo Vannini, Bishop of Nepi e Sutri, serving as co-consecrators.He served as Bishop of Vieste until his death in 1654.
He taught rhetoric in Modena in 1627, and is remembered for publishing arguments against Galileo's notions that the earth orbits the sun.[3]
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of: