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 The Diocese of Bergamo ( la, Dioecesis Bergomensis; it, Diocesi di Bergamo; lmo, Diocesi de Bergum) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan.Casalbuttano 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. Casalbuttano ed Uniti borders the following municipal ...

, he was ordained priest in 1932 for the

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. From 1942 to 1950 he was the parish priest of Saint'Ilario in

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, where he was held in custody for a brief time by the authorities of the

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for his support for the

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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

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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

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. He died in

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* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) {{DEFAULTSORT:Piazzi, Giuseppe 1907 births 1963 deaths Bishops of Bergamo 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Bishops of Cremona