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Giovanni Battista Dellepiane (21 February 1889 – 13 August 1961) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, including nineteen years leading the Vatican's mission to the
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Biography

Giovanni Battista Dellepiane was born in
Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...
on 21 February 1889. He was ordained a priest on 25 July 1914. On 18 July 1929, when he was already serving as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Izmir, Turkey, Pope Pius named him titular archbishop of Stauropolis. He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Willem van Rossum on 30 November 1929. On 18 January 1930, Pope Pius named him its first Apostolic Delegate to the
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(later the
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). He received a noble title in 1947 from
Mutara III Mutara III Rudahigwa (March 1911 – 25 July 1959) was King ('' umwami'') of Rwanda between 1931 and 1959. He was the first Rwandan king to be baptised, and Roman Catholicism took hold in Rwanda during his reign. His Christian names were Cha ...
, King of Rwanda. On 12 January 1949,
Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII ( it, Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his e ...
appointed him Apostolic Internuncio to Austria. He died on 13 August 1961.


See also

* Catholic Church in Africa *
Delle Piane family The Delle Piane family is an old Genoese noble family first recorded in Polcevera in 1121.M. BERALDO, Casate liguri: Dellepiane, in "La Voce della Collegiata di N.S del Rimedio", Genova 1991, a. XLII, n. 2, p. 8. Over the past ten centuries it h ...
*
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Izmir The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Izmir ( la, Archidioecesis Smyrnensis) is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asian Turkey (Anatolia). The archdiocese's cathedral motherchurch and thus see of its archbishop is St ...


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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Giovanni Battista Dellepiane
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