Louis Piazzoli,
PIME
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(12 May 1845 – 26 December 1904) was the
Apostolic Vicar
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of Hong Kong from January 11, 1895 to 1904.
Biography
Born in
Bergamo, Italy
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, Piazzoli was ordained as a priest on 1 September 1868.
Piazzoli arrived in
Hong Kong
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in 1869. He was one of the first missionaries to reach
Tai Po
Tai Po is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It refers to the vicinity of the traditional market towns in the area presently known as Tai Po Old Market or Tai Po Kau Hui () (the original "Tai Po Market") on the north of Lam Tsu ...
. In 1870, he left the mission station in
Ting Kok and started his missionary work in
Sham Chung
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, helping the farmers build a dam.
Appointed Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong on 11 January 1895 and ordained Bishop on 19 May 1895. He died in Hong Kong.
Piazoli's remains were return to Italy, but return to Hong Kong in 2014 to rest at the crypt at
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
See also
*
Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions or PIME ( la, Pontificium Institutum pro Missionibus Exteris; it, Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere) is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities ...
References
Bishop Louis Piazzoli, M.E.M.
Further reading
*
Henri Daniel-Rops (1960/1965), ''The Church in an Age of Revolution, 1789—1870'', trans., John Warington, New York: Dutton.
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Apostolic Vicars of Hong Kong
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
1845 births
1904 deaths