José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. (21 September 1923, in Baselga di Pinè,

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– 7 March 2005, in

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) was a Uruguayan cleric. He was ordained on 15 October 1950 as a Salesian of Don Bosco. On 1 March 1972 he was appointed

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of Bellicastrum and auxiliary bishop of Mercedes; three years later, auxiliary bishop of Montevideo. On 5 June 1985 he was appointed

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; he retired in 1998.José Gottardi dies

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