Alessandro Plotti (8 August 1932 – 19 October 2015) was an Italian prelate of the

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who served as Archbishop of Pisa from 1986 to 2007. ArcivPlotti

He was born in

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and ordained a priest on 25 July 1959. Plotti was named auxiliary Bishop of

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on 23 December 1980 and consecrated on 6 January 1981 by

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. On 7 June 1986 he was named

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and he was installed there on 17 July. He was vice president of the Italian Bishops' Conference from 2000 to 2005. Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation on 2 February 2008. On 12 May 2012, Benedict named him Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Diocese of Trapani, Trapani, a post he held until 3 November 2013. He died on 19 October 2015 in the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome.

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Alessandro Plotti
on Catholic-Hierarchy 1932 births 2015 deaths Italian Roman Catholic archbishops People from the Province of Bologna {{Italy-RC-archbishop-stub