CAPITO, WOLFGANG (1478-1541), Lutheran divine, was born of humble parentage at Hagenau and died at Strasbourg. He was educated at Freiburg, and, becoming a priest, went in 1515 to Basle where he met Erasmus and Zwingli and entered into correspondence with Luther. In 1519, however, he was made chaplain to the archbishop of Mainz, an office which he resigned in 1522 to become a Protestant. In 1523 he settled at Strasbourg, where he remained until his death in November, 1541. He wrote with Bucer the Confessio Tetrapolitana (153o), and later pro duced the Berner Synodus, treating of church discipline. In he opposed the Anabaptists and two years afterwards assisted at the Wittenberg Concordia.