Michele Pellegrino (25 April 1903 – 10 October 1986) was an Italian

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who served as

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near

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. He was educated at the

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, and the Theological Faculty in

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. He was ordained on 19 September 1925 in Fossano. After his ordination he served as spiritual director of the Seminary of Fossano from 1929 until 1933. He was Canon of the cathedral chapter of Fossano,

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and

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of the

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between 1933 and 1943. He taught early Christian literature as a faculty member of the

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until 1965.

Episcopate

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appointed him

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on 18 September 1965. As a bishop he was present at the last session of the

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in 1965.

Cardinalate

He was created

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of Santissimo Nome di Gesù by Pope Paul on 26 June 1967. He resigned the government of the archdiocese in 1977. He participated in the

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s that elected

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and

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. He died three years later and is buried in his family plot in the parish church of Roata Chiusani.

References

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