Carlos Parteli Keller (

Rivera Rivera () is the capital of Rivera Department of Uruguay. The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, which is only a street away from it, at the north end of Route 5. Together, they form an urban area of aro ...

, 8 March 1910 –

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, 26 May 1999) was a

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an Roman Catholic cleric.

Biography

At 13 years of age he entered the Minor Seminary and at 16 he was sent to Rome by the second Bishop of Melo José Joaquín Arrospide to study at the

South American College in Rome The Pontifical Latin American College (Italian: ''Pontificio Collegio Pio Latino Americano'', Spanish: ''Pontificio Colegio Pio Latino Americano'') is one of the Roman Colleges of the Roman Catholic Church, for students from Central and South A ...

. He studied philosophy and theology and was ordained priest on Holy Saturday of 1933 in the Church of San Juan Bautista Berrán. On his return to Uruguay he served as parish priest of the Cathedral of Florida until 1939, when he became secretary of Bishop

Miguel Paternain Miguel Paternain, C.Ss.R. (Minas, Uruguay, 16 November 1894 – 21 October 1970) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric. Biography Ordained 19 February 1921 in the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, he was appointed Bishop of Melo in 1929 ...

. In 1942 he moved to Rivera, where he was appointed pastor of the Immaculate Conception Parish Church. Later, in 1960, he was appointed bishop of then newly created

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacuarembó The Diocese of Tacuarembó ( la, Dioecesis Tacuarembiana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Uruguay. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province (covering all Uruguay) of the metropolit ...

. He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Montevideo and

titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

of Turris in Mauretania in 1966. A decade later, on 17 November 1976, he succeeded as

Archbishop of Montevideo The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo ( la, Archidioecesis Montisvidei) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic church in Uruguay. History Erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo by Pope Gregory XVI on 14 Augu ...

. At the age of 75 years in 1985 Partelli provided renounces to his title and went to reside in an adjoining inter-diocesan seminary, near San Carlos Borromeo Parish in Millan Avenue. He died in 1999.

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* Bishops appointed by Pope John XXIII 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Uruguay 1910 births 1999 deaths People from Rivera Department Uruguayan people of Italian descent Uruguayan Roman Catholic archbishops Roman Catholic bishops of Tacuarembó Roman Catholic archbishops of Montevideo {{Uruguay-RC-archbishop-stub