Giulio Antonio Santorio

Giulio Antonio Santorio (6 June 1532 – 9 May 1602) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Biography Santorio was born in Caserta. He served as Archbishop of Santa Severina from 1566 until his death.

On 12 March 1566, Santorio was consecrated bishop by Scipione Rebiba with Annibale Caracciolo, Bishop of Isola, and Giacomo de' Giacomelli, Bishop Emeritus of Belcastro, serving as co-consecrators. As such, he was also the patron of the Greek College in Rome (founded in 1576) and inspired the Congregation of the Greeks (active from 1593 to 1597 before the Propaganda fide). When Ignatius Ni'matallah arrived in 1578 in Rome, he sought especially the favour of pope Gregory XIII and cardinal Santorio. Santorio was involved in the subsequent negotiations with Ni'matallah and his brother David II Shah, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch, about church union and recognition of David as only legitimate patriarch of Antioch but this ended in failure also. He also organised a mission to the Coptic church between 1581 and 1584.

Episcopal succession Episcopal succession of Giulio Antonio SantorioWhile bishop, he served as the principal consecrator of:

He also served as the principal co-consecrator of:

Literary works Vita del card. Giulio Antonio Santori detto il card. di Santa Severina composta e scritta da lui medesimo, in «Archivio della R. Società di Storia Patria», voll. XII 1889 e XIII 1890 Pro confutatione articulorum et haeresum recentiorum Haereticorum et pseudo-apostolorum, ex Utriusque Testamenti textu decerpta, in ms. Vaticanus Latinus 12233, cc. 62r-439v, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Historia abiuratorum et haereticorum scripta et notata a Cardinali Sanctae Severinae ... De persecutionis haereticae pravitatis historia, ms. in Archivio della Congragazione per la Dottrina della Fede