PETRICCA, ANGELO. - Controversialist, of the Conventual Franciscans, b. at Sonnino (Lazio), d. at Rome on 10 Dec. 1673.

A doctor of theology (1631), he was sent by the Holy See on a special mission to the Shah of Persia for the protection of the Christian communities of the East; but having been unable to reach Persia in time, Propaganda sent him to the missions of Moldavia and Wallachia, where in 1632 he served as vice-prefect and apostolic commissioner in Moldavia. Provincial minister of Hungary (1633), he presided in 1636 over the provincial Chapter of Pettau in Styria and returned to Italy. He was then provincial minister of the East, patriarchal vicar of Constantinople and apostolic prefect of Moldavia and Wallachia from 30 Jan. 1638. He obtained the conversion of the city of Campalung; he fought decisively against the union between Greeks and Calvinists promoted by the schismatic patriarch Cyril Lucaris, and succeeded in bringing his successor, Cyril of Veria (1638), into union with Rome. Having returned to Rome, after the election of Innocent X, he was professor of moral theology at the SS. Apostoli, consultor of Propaganda (with the special task of revising the Euchologion or Ritual of the Greek Church), provincial minister of the Roman province from 1661, procurator general of the Order (1665-68).

Principal writings: Turris David seu de militante ac triumphante Ecclesia (Rome 1647); De appellationibus omnium ecclesiarum ad S. Petri Cathedram (ibid. 1649); Disputationes adversus haereses et aliquorum Graecorum errores (ibid. 1650); De potestate Apostolorum (ibid. 1656); De Regno Christi (ibid. 1671); De triplici philosophia Aristotelis, rationali, naturali et divina ad mentem Doctoris Scoti (ibid. 1672).

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BIBL.: Wadding, Scriptores, p. 21; Sbaralea, I, 46; G. Franchini, Bibliosofia di scrittori O.F.M. Conv., Modena 1693, pp. 43-52; A. M. Belin, Hist. de la latinité de Constantinople, Paris 1894, pp. 351-52; B. Morariu, Series praefectorum Moldaviae et Valachiae, in Commentarium O.F.M. Conv., 37 (1940), p. 185.

Giovanni Odoardi

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