Elzear Torreggiani
D.D.
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In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...
, O.S.F.C, (28 May 1830 – 28 January 1904)
[
] was a
Catholic Bishop of Armidale,
New South Wales
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Torregiani was born in
Porto Recanati
Porto Recanati () is a town with some 12,500 inhabitants in the province of Macerata, in the Marche region. of central Italy. It is the northeast coastal town of the province. It was made an independent town on 15 January 1893, when, due to a Decr ...
, Loreto district,
Papal States
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, Italy
[ and consecrated bishop on 25 March 1879. Prior to coming to Australia the bishop had had large experience of pastoral work in England and the south of Wales.][P. Colbourne, Bishop Torreggiani and the early Capuchins in the Diocese of Armidale, ''Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society'' 25 (2004), 21-31.] He was Superior of the Capuchin Monastery in Lower Park Road, Peckham
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History
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, at the date of his appointment.[
]
See also
*Catholic Church in Australia
The Catholic Church in Australia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual and administrative leadership of the Holy See. From origins as a suppressed, mainly Irish minority in early colonial times, the church has grown ...
References
1830 births
1904 deaths
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Roman Catholic bishops of Armidale
Italian expatriates in Australia
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
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