Pietro Mola

Styles of Pietro Mola

Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Pietro Mola^[1] (1755-1829) was the Bishop of Bergamo from 1821 to 1829.

Life

Born^[2] in Codogno part of the Austrian ruled Duchy of Milan he was named by the authorities of the Cisalpine Republic pastor of the parish of Codogno. He was later named abbot of the abbey of Casalmaggiore and in 1821 he was named bishop of Bergamo.During his episcopacy he reaffirmed the teaching of pope Pius VII against the carbonari. Mola also blessed the new seminary of Bergamo at the top of Colle San Giovanni. He dies in 1829.

Preceded by Giampaolo Dolfin	Bishop of Bergamo 1821 -1829	Succeeded by Carlo Gritti Morlacchi

References

↑ From Catholic hierarchy website
↑ An Italian website

Bishops of Bergamo 1777-

From 1777 to 1879	Giampaolo Dolfin (1777) Pietro Mola (1821) Carlo Gritti Morlacchi (1831) Pietro Luigi Speranza (1854)

From 1879 (after the Italian unification)	Gaetano Guindani (1879) Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi (1904) Luigi Maria Marelli (1914) Adriano Bernareggi (1936) Giuseppe Piazzi (1953) Clemente Gaddi (1963) Giulio Oggioni (1977) Roberto Amadei (1991) Francesco Beschi (2009)

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