Tommaso Caputo

The Most Reverend Tommaso Caputo
Bishop-Prelate of Pompei
Bishop Caputo (center) during a Mass in Pompei.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Pompei
Appointed	10 November 2012
Predecessor	Carlo Liberati
Other posts	Pontifical Delegate for the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii (2012-)
Orders
Ordination	10 April 1974 by Corrado Ursi
Consecration	29 September 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI
Personal details
Birth name	Tommaso Caputo
Born	(1950-10-17) 17 October 1950 Afragola, Italy
Previous post	Head of Protocol of the Secretariat of State (1993-2007) Titular Archbishop of Otricoli (2007-12) Apostolic Nuncio to Libya (2007-12) Apostolic Nuncio to Malta (2007-12)
Alma mater	Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy Pontifical Lateran University
Motto	Adjutores gaudii vestri
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Tommaso Caputo (born 17 October 1950 in Afragola) is an Italian Catholic Bishop and Diplomat, the Titular Archbishop of Otriculum. He was ordained a priest in Naples on 10 April 1974.

An alumnus of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy from October 1976, he obtained a Doctorate in Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. Mgr. Caputo joined the Diplomatic Service of the Holy See on March 25, 1980 where he occupied various posts at the Apostolic Nunciature in Rwanda (1980-1984), the Apostolic Nunciature in the Philippines (1984–87), at the Apostolic Nunciature in Venezuela (1987–89), and at the Secretariat of State (1989–93). On June 19, 1993 he was nominated Head of Protocol in the Secretariat of State.

Caputo was appointed Archbishop of Otriculum and Apostolic Nuncio to Malta and Libya in 2007. He was ordained archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI (as principal consecrator) and the Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone and Marian Jaworski on 29 September 2007. He held his post as Nuncio until his appointment as prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Pompei in November 2012.

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