The Venerable Carlo Carafa (Mariglianella, 1561 – Naples, 8 September 1633) was an Italian presbyter and founder of Congregation of Pious Workers.

One day while passing the Palazzo Reale di Napoli, he happened to hear the nuns chanting at the Monastery of Regina Caeli and stopped to listen.

Carafa decided to make a change and at the age of thirty-four, took up the study of philosophy and theology.

Cardinal Giesualdo, seeing his good work, assigned him to the church of Santa Maria di Tutti i Beni.

Several ecclesiastics who were under his spiritual guidance left their homes to live with him and aid him in his apostolic labors, which the archbishop allowed.