Church Roman Catholic Church Nationality Italy Predecessor Ruggero Franceschini Consecration 20 December 2015 | In office November 7, 2015 Motto Misericordia Ordination 4 August 1969 Reference style The Most Reverend | |
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Born December 15, 1943 (age 73)
Mazzè ( 1943-12-15 ) Previous post Parish priest, Istanbul
Professor at University of Marmara Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Izmir Alma maters University of Bologna, University of Turin | ||
Lorenzo Piretto O.P. is the Archbishop of Izmir and a Dominican friar. He was ordained to the episcopate and installed as Archbishop of Izmir on December 20, 2007, five days after his 72nd birthday.
Family life
Lorenzo Piretto was born in Mazzè in the frazione of Tonengo in 1942, and was ordained as a Dominican priest in 1966. He continued his theological studies in Bologna, where he was licensed in 1967, and in Turin where he became a doctor in 1972. From 1967 to 1974 he taught philosophy at the Dominican seminary of Chieri.
From 1983 to 2005 he taught Italian at University of Marmara and in the same time was journalist in the Christian review Presence.
From 2004 he is parson in St Peter and Paul church in Istanbul.
On November 7, 2015, Pope Francis appointed him as the new Archbishop of Izmir. He was consecrated on December 20, 2015, by Armenian Catholic Archeparch of Istanbul Boghos Lévon Zékiyan.