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Domenico Maselli (24 December 1933 – 4 March 2016) was an Italian politician and pastor.
Biography
Maselli was born in
Alessandria
Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin.
Alessandria ...
. He was President of the
Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy The Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy ( it, Federazione delle Chiese Evangeliche in Italia, FCEI) is an ecumenical Protestant body in Italy.
History
The FCEI, formed in 1967, includes the historical Protestant churches of Italy, that is t ...
.
He was a member of the
Waldensian Evangelical Church
The Waldensian Evangelical Church (''Chiesa Evangelica Valdese'', CEV) is a Protestant denomination active in Italy and Switzerland that was independent until it united with the Methodist Evangelical Church in Italy in the Union of Methodist and W ...
and a pastor in
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Lucca is known as one o ...
.
Politics
A long-time member of the
Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country.
Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...
(PSI), he later joined the
Social Christians
The Social Christians ( it, Cristiano Sociali) are a Christian social-democratic faction within the Democratic Party, a political party in Italy. Before that, they were a party (1993–1998) and a faction of the Democrats of the Left (1998–2007 ...
and the
Democrats of the Left
The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of th ...
. He was a deputy from 1996 to 2001.
References
1933 births
2016 deaths
People from Alessandria
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
Italian Waldensians
Italian Socialist Party politicians
Democratic Party of the Left politicians
Democrats of the Left politicians
Deputies of Legislature XII of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XIII of Italy
Politicians of Piedmont
Calvinist and Reformed Christian socialists
Italian Christian socialists
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