Ioannis Andreas Kargas
Ioannis Andreas Kargas (Greek: Ιωάννης Ανδρέας Κάργας, Italian: Giovanni Andrea Carga; died on 2 October 1617) was a Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syros and Milos from 1607 to 1617.[1] During the invasion of the Turks in 1617, under the leadership of the Kapudan Pasha Çelebi Ali, Kargas was captured and hanged.[2] His name has been given to the street that leads to the stairs of Ano Syros.
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- 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Greece
- Executed Greek people
- 1617 deaths
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- People from Syros
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