Church Roman Catholic Church Successor Giulio Oggioni See Diocese of Bergamo Name Clemente Gaddi | In office 1963 - 1977 Ordination September 18, 1926 Predecessor Giuseppe Piazzi | |
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Consecration September 6, 1953
by Mgr Felice Bonomini Died November 7, 1993, Bergamo, Italy Previous post Roman Catholic Diocese of Nicosia, Sicily, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Siracusa | ||
Clemente Gaddi(1901–1993) was an Italian prelate that was bishop of Bergamo in the years after the Second Vatican Council.
Life
He was born in Mandello del Lario and ordained as a priest in 1926. From 1926 to 1953 he worked as professor of the seminary of Como and then prevost of Cernobbio.
In 1953 pope Pius XII named him bishop of Nicosia, and in 1962 pope John XXIII appointed him as Coadjutor archbishop of the Siracusa.
In 1963 after the death of bishop Giuseppe Piazzi he was named bishop of Bergamo with the personal title of Archbishop.
In 1977 he resigned from his post as bishop, and died in Bergamo where he is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Bergamo
References
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