Clemente Gaddi

Styles of
John Joseph Cantwell
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous style none

Clemente Gaddi[1]( 1901-1993 ) was an Italian prelate that was bishop of Bergamo in the years after the Second Vatican Council.

Life

Born in Mandello del Lario and on 1926 he was ordinaied priest.From 1926 to 1953 he worked as professor of the seminary of Como and then prevost of Cernobbio. In 1953 pope Pius XII named him bishop of Nicosia, and in 1962 pope John XXIII appointed him as Coadjutor archbishop of Siracusa.In 1963 after the death of bishop Giuseppe Piazzi he was named bishop of Bergamo with the personal title of Archbishop. In 1977 he resigned from his post as bishop, and died in Bergamo where is buried in the crypt of Cathedral of Bergamo[2]

Preceded by
Giuseppe Piazzi
Bishop of Bergamo
1963 - 1977
Succeeded by
Giulio Oggioni

References

  1. ^ C. Epis, Gaddi Vescovo tra la gente,2001
  2. ^ From L'Eco di Bergamo website [1]