Filippo Giudice Caracciolo was an

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prelate who was

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from 1833 to 1844.From Prof Salvador Miranda website
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Life

Born into a

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in Naples on 27 March 1785, he entered the Oratorian order in the late years of the 18th century. He was ordained on March 18, 1809. He performed his pastoral duties in different places and in 1820 he was named bishop of

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and consecrated as bishop. In 1833, he was named by pope

Gregory XVI Pope Gregory XVI ( la, Gregorius XVI; it, Gregorio XVI; born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari; 18 September 1765 – 1 June 1846) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in 1 June 1846. He h ...

archbishop of Naples. In the same year he was named

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with the title of S. Agnese fuori le mura. He died on 29 January 1844.

References

1785 births 1844 deaths 19th-century Italian cardinals 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Archbishops of Naples

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