DE CAMILLIS, GIOVANNI (GIUSEPPE). — Basilian theologian, born in Chios (Greece) on 7 Dec. 1641, died on 22 Aug. 1706. In 1656 he entered the Pontifical Greek College in Rome. In 1668 the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith sent him to the region of Chimara (southern Albania) to assist the Apostolic Vicar Arcadio Stanila. Returning to Rome (1672), he became a monk in the Basilian Congregation of the Most Holy Trinity of the Ruthenians, taking the name Giuseppe, and served as procurator of his Congregation at the Holy See.
He worked as a scribe in the Vatican Library and in 1677 published in Italian a treatise on spiritual life: *La vita divina ritrovata fra i termini del tutto e del nulla*. Other of his Greek pamphlets remained unpublished.
In 1690 he was elected titular Bishop of Sebaste and sent to Munkács as Apostolic Vicar of the Ruthenians in Hungary. He strengthened and promoted Church union, corrected abuses, and composed a catechism.