{{Short description|Historical figure}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = Most Reverend | name = Gerolamo Cappello | title = Bishop of Termoli | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = Diocese of Termoli | see = | term = 1626–1643 | predecessor = Hector de Monte | successor = Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal) <!-- Orders --> | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = 30 November 1626 | consecrated_by = Marcello Lante della Rovere | cardinal = | rank = <!-- Personal details --> | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 1643 | death_place = Termoli, Italy | previous_post = | nationality = }}
'''Gerolamo Cappello, O.F.M. Conv.''' (died 1643) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Termoli (1626–1643).<ref name=HierarchiaIV>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol04eubeuoft#page/334/mode/2up|last1=Gauchat|first1=Patritius (Patrice)|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi | volume=IV|pages=334|date=1935|publisher=Libraria Regensbergiana|location=Münster|ISBN=}} ''(in Latin)''</ref>
==Biography== Gerolamo Cappello ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.<ref name=HierarchiaIV /><ref name=CathHierGeroCapp>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Gerolamo Cappello, O.F.M. Conv.|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcappello.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> On 26 November 1626, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Bishop of Termoli.<ref name=HierarchiaIV /><ref name=CathHierGeroCapp /> On 30 November 1626, he was consecrated bishop by Marcello Lante della Rovere, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quirico e Giulitta, with Fabrizio Caracciolo Piscizi, Bishop of Catanzaro, and Giovanni Battista Altieri, Bishop of Camerino, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierGeroCapp /> He served as Bishop of Termoli until his death in 1643.<ref name=HierarchiaIV /><ref name=CathHierGeroCapp />
== See also == *Catholic Church in Italy
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==External links and additional sources== *{{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Termoli-Larino|website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtela.html |accessdate=March 25, 2018}} (Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Termoli-Larino (Italy)|website=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/term0.htm |accessdate=March 25, 2018}} (Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]
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