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, Italy, on 27 June 1939 and ordained as a priest of the Order of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco on 21 December 1969. He was appointed archbishop of Ispahan on 2 December 1989 and consecrated on 6 January 1990. He resided in

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. He was the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Iran, though he was the only

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member of the conference, with the others being of the

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and Chaldean Rites. Archbishop Bedini's retirement was announced by the Holy See effective 20 January 2015.http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html

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