Michele Russo (30 January 1945 – 30 March 2019) was an Italian

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bishop.

Biography

Russo was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Doba,

Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...

, from 1989 to 2014.Diocese of Doba
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