Giacomo Accarisi

Most Reverend Giacomo Accarisi
Bishop of Vieste
Church	Catholic Church
In office	1644–1654
Predecessor	Paolo Ciera
Successor	Giovanni Mastelloni
Orders
Consecration	13 November 1644 by Cesare Facchinetti
Personal details
Died	1654 Vieste, Italy

Giacomo Accarisi (1599-1653) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Vieste (1644–1654).

Biography

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.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

• Ascanio Maffei, Archbishop of Urbino (1646);
• Mario Montani, Bishop of Nocera Umbra (1646); and
• Marco Romano (bishop) (Marco Cristalli), Bishop of Ruvo (1646).

External links and additional sources

• Petrucci, Armando (1960). "ACCARISI, Giacomo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 1: Aaron–Albertucci (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
• Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Vieste". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}
• Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Vieste (Italy)". GCatholic.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019. (for Chronology of Bishops) ^{[self-published]}