RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Giuseppe Caprio

1914 - 2005

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Giuseppe Caprio (15 November 1914 – 15 October 2005), was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He held the post of President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See before he retired in 1990. Caprio was born just outside Naples and studied at the Gregorian University in Rome before being ordained in 1938. He worked in China for four years before being posted to Vietnam and Taiwan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Caprio is the 2,207th most popular religious figure (up from 2,587th in 2019), the 2,883rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,543rd in 2019) and the 473rd most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Giuseppe Caprio ranks 2,207 out of 3,187Before him are Ieronymos II of Athens, Leonardo Murialdo, Gaudentius of Brescia, Hans Talhoffer, Balthasar Bekker, and Juraj Drašković. After him are Athenodorus of Byzantium, Jacques Hamel, Aleksander Kakowski, Dwight L. Moody, Johannes Cocceius, and Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Giuseppe Caprio ranks 191Before him are Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Théo Lefèvre, Alfred Andersch, Aníbal Troilo, and BP Koirala. After him are Harold Russell, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Johannes Virolainen, Kevin McCarthy, Marcel Kint, and George Volkoff. Among people deceased in 2005, Giuseppe Caprio ranks 144Before him are Martin Lings, James Doohan, Wee Kim Wee, Alexander Yakovlev, Jacques Villeret, and Netti Witziers-Timmer. After him are Pierre Bachelet, Eduardo Paolozzi, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Jimmy Smith, Erik Balling, and Dan O'Herlihy.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Caprio ranks 2,883 out of 5,161Before him are Ulric Manfred II of Turin (901), Geki (1937), Gaudentius of Brescia (327), Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679), Pietro IV Candiano (901), and Girolamo Savoldo (1480). After him are Isotta Nogarola (1418), Nanni Galli (1940), Andrea de Adamich (1941), Serena Grandi (1958), Ignazio Giunti (1941), and Salamone Rossi (1570).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Giuseppe Caprio ranks 473Before him are Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi (1714), Oscar Cantoni (1950), Cesare Orsenigo (1873), Antonio Marcello Barberini (1569), Leonardo Murialdo (1828), and Gaudentius of Brescia (327). After him are Giuseppe Versaldi (1943), Giuseppe Pizzardo (1877), Giovanni Coppa (1925), Giovanni de' Marignolli (1290), Laurence of Canterbury (550), and Jacqueline Felice de Almania (1300).