Cesare (or Caesar) Mazzolari (9 February 1937 – 16 July 2011) was the

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek () is a diocese in Rumbek in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, Juba in South Sudan. Geography The Diocese of Rumbek is located in the heart of the Republic of South Sudan. To ...

, in the newly independent Republic of

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

Biography

Bishop Mazzolari was born Feb. 9, 1937 in

Brescia Brescia (, ; ; or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Lake Garda, Garda and Lake Iseo, Iseo. With a population of 199,949, it is the se ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

. He joined the

Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus The Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (), also known as the Comboni Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, or the Verona Fathers, and originally called the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (''Congregatio Filiorum S. Cordis Iesu''), is a Cat ...

, and on 17 March 1962 was ordained a priest in San Diego, USA. His mission brought him to

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...

, in the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

, where he worked among

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

and

Mexican American Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexico, Mexican descent. In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the Unite ...

miners. He rebuilt the Diocese of Rumbek, after the two Southern Sudanese Secession Wars (1955–1973 and 1983–2005) had devastated the country and the Government of Khartoum had expelled all foreign missionaries from the country in the 1960s. He died a week later, on 16 July 2011, at the age of 74, while concelebrating a Mass.Bishop Cesare Mazzolari
/ref>

Notes

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazzolari, Cesare 1937 births 2011 deaths Comboni Missionaries Italian Roman Catholic bishops in Africa 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Sudan People from Brescia 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Sudan Roman Catholic bishops of Rumbek