Oliviero Carafa

Oliviero Carafa ( born March 10, 1430 Rome, † January 20, 1511 ibid ) was Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Clerical career

Oliviero Carafa was Archbishop of Naples in 1458. Pope Paul II took him on September 18, 1467 with the titular church Sant'Eusebio to the College of Cardinals. He received in 1472 as an admiral in command of one of Pope Sixtus IV against the Turks equipped fleet with which he conquered Smyrna and the port of Satalia in Turkey in the same year.

Its meaning

Oliviero Carafa was a patron of architecture in Naples and Rome.

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