Giuseppe Ceppetelli (15 March 1846 – 12 March 1917) was an
Italian Catholic prelate who served as Titular
Patriarch of Constantinople
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from 1903 until his death.
He was ordained on
Holy Saturday
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of 1870 and was consecrated a bishop by the
Vicar General of Rome,
Raffaele Monaco La Valletta, in 1882. He ordained the 22-year-old
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, to the priesthood on 10 August 1904.
He died on the eve of his 71st birthday in 1917 and was buried in
Rome
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.
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1846 births
1917 deaths
20th-century Italian cardinals
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic titular archbishops
Latin Patriarchs of Constantinople
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