Maurizio Galli (21 November 1932 − 1 June 2008) was an

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bishop.

Career

Ordained to the priesthood in 1961, Galli was named bishop of

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, Italy, in 1998 and resigned in 2007. On 2 May 1998 he received the episcopal consecrationin thew

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by hand of then local bishop Giulio Nicolini and with the participation of Giulio Nicolini and Fiorino Tagliaferri in quality of co-consecrators. On 28 June 2007 Galli received the

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by the Major of

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. two days later, he resigned from the charge of ordinary bishop under the pressures of part of the Italian Episscopal Conference, becoming emeritus bishop in the same diocese. Some elements belonging to the Roman Catholic feared he could be affected by a degenerative mental illness.

Death

In November he had a critical surgical intervention in

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due to a brain cancer. He died at 8.15 a.m. on 1 June 2008 in the

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. The funeral was celebrated on 3 June 2008 in the Cremona Cathedral by the bishop Dante Lafranconi, with the participation of the following bishops: Carlo Mazza of

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, Roberto Busti of

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and Lino Pizzi of Forlì-Bertinoro. Subsequently, the remains were translated in Fidenza for the public worship and the cardinal

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celebrated a second esequial Mass. Mgr. Galli was entombed in the

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in the ''Arca dei Vescovi'' (Bishop's Arch), a sculptorial work of the cremonese Pietro Farraroni.

Legacy

On 2 December 2009, in the Bonomelli Hall of the diocesan seminary of Cremona it was presented the book titled ''Maurizio Galli. Uomo d'eccellenza'' (Maurizio Galli, a man of excellence)..

References

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