De Camillis, Giovanni (Giuseppe) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 746

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

DE CAMILLIS, GIOVANNI (GIUSEPPE). - Basilian theologian, born at Scio (Greece) on 7 Dec. 1641, died on 22 Aug. 1706. In 1656 he entered the Pontifical Greek College in Rome. In 1668 Propaganda Fide sent him to the region of Chimara (southern Albania) to assist the apostolic vicar Arcadio Stanila. Having returned to Rome (1672), he became a monk in the Ruthenian Basilian Congregation of the Most Holy Trinity, taking the name Giuseppe, and held the office of procurator of his Congregation before the Holy See.

He was a writer at the Vatican Library and in 1677 published in Italian the treatise on the spiritual life: La vita divina ritrovata fra i termini del tutto e del nulla. Other of his works in Greek remained unpublished.

In 1690 he was elected titular bishop of Sebaste and sent to Munkačs as apostolic vicar of the Ruthenians of the

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DE CAROLIS, ADOLFO — Self-portrait. Detail of the frieze in the fresco of the provincial assembly hall of Arezzo.

Kingdom of Hungary. He strengthened and propagated the union, corrected abuses, and composed a catechism.

BIBL.: N. Nilles, Symbolae ad illustrandum historico Ecclesiae orientalis, II, Innsbruck 1885, pp. 186, 854–65; E. Legrand, Bibliographie hellénique du XVIIe siècle, V, Paris 1903, pp. 348–63; N. Borgia, I monaci basiliani d'Italia in Albania, I, Rome 1935, pp. 119–64.

Teodoro Minisci