Alfredo Horacio Zecca (27 September 1949 – 4 November 2022) was an Argentine
prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of
Tucumán from 2011 to 2017, when he resigned for health reasons.
Life
Zecca was born in
Buenos Aires, and
ordained to the
priesthood on 19 November 1976.
Zecca was named a consultor to the
Congregation for Catholic Education on 29 January 2005, and a member of that Congregation on 12 June 2012.
On 10 June 2011, he was appointed
Archbishop
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of
Tucumán following the retirement of Archbishop
Luis Héctor Villalba.
Zecca received his
episcopal consecration on 11 August from
Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio (later Pope Francis), Archbishop of
Buenos Aires. Serving as
co-consecrators
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The terms are used in the canon law of the Catholic Church, Lutheran Churches, ...
were
Estanislao Esteban Cardinal Karlic, Archbishop Emeritus of
Paraná,
Eduardo Vicente Mirás
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Association football
* Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator
* Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese football ...
, Archbishop Emeritus of
Rosario
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,
Luis Héctor Villalba, Archbishop Emeritus of
Tucumán, and
Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi
Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi (January 18, 1961) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago del Estero since his appointment by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on November 22, 2008. On Tuesday December, ...
,
Auxiliary Bishop of
Santiago del Estero
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. He was installed in Tucumán on 17 September 2011.
Zecca met with Pope Francis in February 2017 and submitted his resignation on 19 March. Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop for health reasons on 9 June 2017, when Zecca was 67, assigning him the titular see of
Bolsena.
Rather than allowing him to become Archbishop Emeritus, as is normal in cases of retirement, he was assigned the titular see of
Bolsena and remained an active bishop. According to some reports, Pope Francis removed Zecca, not for health reasons but because he had accepted the government authorities' ruling of suicide in the case of a priest who had been a longtime campaigner against drug traffickers was found hanged on 5 October 2016.
[
Zecca died from heart failure on 4 November 2022, at the age of 73.]
References
External links
Alfredo Horacio Zecca at Catholic Hierarchy
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1949 births
2022 deaths
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Argentina
Clergy from Buenos Aires
Roman Catholic archbishops of Tucumán
Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI