Giuseppe Piazzi (2 September 1907 – 5 August 1963) was an Italian bishop who led the
Diocese of Crema
The Diocese of Crema ( la, Dioecesis Cremensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has existed since 1579. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Milan.[Diocese of Bergamo
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Casalbuttano ed Uniti ( Cremunés: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about northwest of Cremona.
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, he was ordained priest in 1932 for the
Diocese of Cremona
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. From 1942 to 1950 he was the parish priest of
Saint'Ilario in
Cremona
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, where he was held in custody for a brief time by the authorities of the
Italian Social Republic
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for his support for the
partisan
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s.
[From the parish of Sant'Ilario website: http://www.santilariocremona.it/file/PAGINE/langelo_di_s._ilario_2-08.pdf ]
In 1950 pope
Pius XII
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named him Bishop of Cremona, and in 1953 he was appointed bishop of Bergamo. As Bishop of Bergamo, he decided to renovate the diocesan seminary, and he started the fraternal relationship between his diocese and the city of
Cochabamba
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.
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He died in
Engelberg
, neighboring_municipalities = Attinghausen (UR), Gadmen (BE), Innertkirchen (BE), Isenthal (UR), Wassen (UR), Wolfenschiessen (NW)
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References
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1907 births
1963 deaths
Bishops of Bergamo
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops of Cremona