Teofilo Testa
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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend
| name = Teofilo Testa
| title = Bishop of Tropea
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| diocese = Diocese of Tropea
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| term = 1692–1695
| predecessor = Francisco de Figueroa (bishop)
| successor = Juan Lorenzo Ibáñez de Arilla
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| consecration = 18 December 1655
| consecrated_by = Ferdinando d'Adda
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| birth_date = 12 September 1631
| birth_place = S. Pauli, Italy
| death_date = 21 October 1695
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Teofilo Testa, O.F.M. Obs. (1631–1695) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Tropea (1692–1695).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft#page/392/mode/2up|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume= V|pages=392|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|ISBN=}} (in Latin)
Biography
Teofilo Testa was born in S. Pauli, Italy on 12 September 1631 and ordained a priest in the Order of Observant Friars Minor.{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Teofilo Testa, O.F.M. |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btestat.html |accessdate=June 16, 2018}} Wikipedia:SPS
On 25 June 1692, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Tropea.
On 18 December 1655, he was consecrated bishop by Ferdinando d'Adda, Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente, with Tommaso de Franchi, Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, and Francesco Antonio Triveri, Bishop of Andria, serving as co-consecrators.
He served as Bishop of Tropea until his death on 21 October 1695.
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External links and additional sources
- {{Cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Tropea |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|date=|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dt211.html|accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
- {{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Tropea (Italy)|website=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/trop0.htm|accessdate=June 16, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
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| years = 1692–1695
| before = Francisco de Figueroa (bishop)
| after = Juan Lorenzo Ibáñez de Arilla}}
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Category:17th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
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