José Gottardi Cristelli,
S.D.B. (21 September 1923, in
Baselga di Pinè,
Trentino
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– 7 March 2005, in
Montevideo
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) was a Uruguayan cleric.
He was ordained on 15 October 1950 as a
Salesian of Don Bosco
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. On 1 March 1972 he was appointed
titular bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Bellicastrum and auxiliary bishop of Mercedes; three years later, auxiliary bishop of Montevideo. On 5 June 1985 he was appointed
Archbishop of Montevideo
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo ( la, Archidioecesis Montisvidei) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic church in Uruguay.
History
Erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo by Pope Gregory XVI on 14 Augu ...
; he retired in 1998.
José Gottardi dies
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1923 births
2005 deaths
People from Trentino
Salesian bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Paul VI
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Uruguay
Uruguayan Roman Catholic archbishops
Roman Catholic bishops of Mercedes
Roman Catholic archbishops of Montevideo
Italian emigrants to Uruguay
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