Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B., is a former Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Ispahan (Isfahan), Iran. Bedini was born in Sassomorello, near Modena, Italy, on 27 June 1939 and ordained as a priest of the Order of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco on 21 December 1969. He was appointed archbishop of Ispahan on 2 December 1989 and consecrated on 6 January 1990. He resided in

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. He is the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Iran, though he is the only

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member of the conference, with the others being of the

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and

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s. Archbishop Bedini, retirement was announced by the Holy See effective 20 January 2015.http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html

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