Felice Cappello
Italian priest
Who they were
Felice Maria Cappello was a Jesuit priest from Caviola, in the Diocese of Belluno-Feltre, Italy. He was a canon lawyer of international standing, but was better known as 'the confessor of Rome': for four decades he heard confessions in the Church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome, where he is buried beside his confessional.
His cause for canonisation was opened in 1986, and its diocesan phase closed in the Vicariate of Rome on 24 June 2014, after which the file passed to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
The miracles
The Church has not yet approved a miracle in this cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A Jesuit canon lawyer remembered as 'the confessor of Rome', whom Pope Francis praised as a great confessor.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Jesuits of Italy (gesuiti.it), 1 July 2014 - 'Roma. Chiusa la fase diocesana del processo di canonizzazione di padre Cappello', calling him Servant of God
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis 110 (2018), p. 1779 - Decree on the heroic virtues of Edvige Carboni, naming 'P. Felix Cappello' among the servants of God who esteemed her
- Wikidata Q16222590 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.