Ernesto Maria Piovella O.SS.C.A. (29 October 1867,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

- 18 February 1949, Cagliari) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and bishop.

Life

He entered the oblate missionaries of Rho and served as

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. Pope Pius X made him bishop of Alghero and he was ordained by cardinal

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, archbishop of Milan, Pasquale Morganti O.SS.C.A., archbishop of Ravenna and Giovanni Mauri, auxiliary bishop of Milan. He was later made

archbishop of Oristano The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oristano ( la, Archidioecesis Arborensis) is a metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church in Sardinia, Italy. It was created in the eleventh century. Its only suffragan is the Diocese of Ales-Terralba. Since ...

and archbishop of Cagliari. He called a diocesan synod in 1928. He is buried in the Sacra Spina chapel in

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and his

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process has begun.

Sources

*http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpiov.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Piovella, Ernesto Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Clergy from Milan 1949 deaths 1867 births