Luigi Bommarito (1 June 1926 – 19 September 2019) was an Italian

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archbishop. Bommarito was born in

Terrasini Terrasini is a international touristic centre most popular in Sicily. It is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the island of Sicily in Italy. Data Terrasini is located west of Palermo at the motorway between Palermo and Trap ...

in Sicily,

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1949. He served as titular bishop of ''Vannida'' and was auxiliary bishop of the

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, Italy, from 1976 to 1980. He then served as bishop of the Agrigento Diocese from 1980 to 1988. Bommarito served as archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Catania The Archdiocese of Catania () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Sicily, southern Italy, with its seat in Catania. It was elevated to an archdiocese in 1859, and became a metropolitan see in 2000. Its suffragans are the diocese o ...

, Italy, from 1988 to 2002.Archdiocese of Catania
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