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Carlo Caputo (5 November 1843, Entry for Carlo Caputo on ''catholic-hierarchy.org''
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Carlo Caputo (5 November 1843, Naples
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– 25 September 1908, Naples) was a Roman Catholic priest. He was diocesan bishop of Monopoli and Aversa
Aversa () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta in Campania, southern Italy, about 24 km north of Naples. It is the centre of an agricultural district, the ''Agro Aversano'', producing wine and cheese (famous for the typical bu ...
, then titular bishop
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of Nikomedia and from 1904 to 1907 apostolic nuncio
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to the Kingdom of Bavaria
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Life
He studied in Naples and was ordained priest by cardinalSisto Riario Sforza
Sisto Riario Sforza (5 December 1810 – 29 September 1877) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who served as the Archbishop of Naples from 1845 until his death. Sforza's rapid rise through the Church ranks began with various appointments ...
on 16 March 1867. He then studied at the academy for noble clergymen in Rome, where he entered the church's diplomatic service. He then worked in the Roman Curia as a speaker in the College of Cardinals
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for exceptional ecclesiastical affairs, before returning to Italy, where on 18 March 1883 he was appointed Bishop of Monopoli, receiving episcopal ordination on 15 May the same year. He was promoted to Bishop of Aversa on 7 June 1886, where he stayed until 19 April 1897, the date on which he was made titular bishop of Nikomedia and head of the Territorial Prelature of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti. Caputo remained diocesan prelate until January 1904. He was made Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria on 14 January 1904, based in Munich
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– there were no other nuncios in Germany so he also acted as nuncio for the rest of the country. He fell ill with stomach cancer
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and had to resign his nunciature in August 1907, returning to Naples, where he died a year later.
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