Gaetano Michetti (3 March 1922 – 13 December 2007) was the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesaro The Archdiocese of Pesaro () is a Latin Church, Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in central Italy. Its see at Pesaro was elevated to the status of metropolitan archiepiscopal see in 2000. Its suffragans are the Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagl ...

in Italy. Appointed by

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963. He is the most recent pope to take ...

in July 1975, he served until 3 January 1998.

Biography

Born in Corridonia in 1922, Michetti was ordained as a Catholic priest on 8 August 1948. He was appointed

Auxiliary bishop An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions. ...

of Fermo on 31 May 1961 and was ordained titular Bishop of Irenopilis in Cilicia on 15 August 1961. He was council father during the four sessions of

Second Vatican Council The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or , was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met each autumn from 1962 to 1965 in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for session ...

. He was appointed

coadjutor bishop A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) ("co-assister" in Latin) is a bishop in the Latin Catholic, Anglican and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in administering the diocese. The coa ...

Pesaro Pesaro (; ) is a (municipality) in the Italy, Italian region of Marche, capital of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the ...

on 7 July 1973, and installed as bishop after

monsignor Monsignor (; ) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian ''monsignore'', meaning "my lord". "Monsignor" can be abbreviated as Mons.... or Msgr. In some ...

Luigi Borromeo's death, on 4 July 1975. Bishop Gaetano Michetti died on 13 December 2007,In ricordo di mons. Gaetano Michetti
/ref> at the age of 85.

References

External links

''www.catholic-hierarchy.org''
Official Page of diocese of Pesaro
1922 births Bishops and archbishops of Pesaro 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops 2007 deaths People from the Province of Macerata {{20C-Italy-RC-bishop-stub