Silvio Cesare Bonicelli (31 March 1932 – 6 March 2009) was the Italian Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Parma The Italian Catholic Diocese of Parma ( la, Dioecesis Parmensis) has properly been called Diocese of Parma-Fontevivo since 1892.

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on 13 December 1996 until his retirement on 19 January 2008. Bonicelli was born in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

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. He obtained a degree in law in 1954 from the Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He was first ordained a Catholic priest on 16 June 1962. He previously served as the Bishop of the

diocese of San Severo The Italian Catholic Diocese of San Severo ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Severi) is in Apulia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino. History The diocese of San Severo was established on 9 March 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII, with the bull ...

before being appointed to the diocese of

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmigiano-Reggiano, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 ...

. Bishop Silvio Cesare Bonicelli died in Bergamo on 6 March 2009, at the age of 76.

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* * David M. Cheney, ''Catholic-hierarchy.org''
Bishop Silvio Cesare Bonicelli
retrieved: 26 October 2018. 1932 births 2009 deaths Bishops of Parma Clergy from Bergamo 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops {{20C-Italy-RC-bishop-stub