Ioannis Andreas Kargas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ioannis Andreas Kargas

Greek bishop

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1560

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1617

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ioannis Andreas Kargas (Greek: ??????? ??d??a? ????a?, 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.
During the invasion of the Turks in 1617, under the leadership of the Kapudan Pasha Çelebi Ali, Kargas was captured and hanged.
His name has been given to the street that leads to the stairs of Ano Syros.