Michele Pellegrino (25 April 1903 – 10 October 1986) was an Italian

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who served as Archbishop of Turin from 1965 until 1977.

Biography

Pellegrino was born in

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, province of

Cuneo Cuneo (; ; ; ) is a city and in Piedmont, Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in the south-west of Piedmont, at the confluence of the ri ...

. He was educated at the

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Fossano Fossano () is a town and ''comune'' of Piedmont, Northern Italy. It is the fourth largest town of the province of Cuneo, after Cuneo, Alba and Bra. It lies on the main railway line from Turin to Cuneo and to Savona, and has a branch line to Mon ...

, Catholic University of Milan, and the Theological Faculty in

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. He was ordained on 19 September 1925 in Fossano. After his ordination he served as spiritual director of the Seminary of Fossano from 1929 until 1933. He was Canon of the cathedral chapter of Fossano,

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and

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of the

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between 1933 and 1943. He taught early Christian literature as a faculty member of the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

until 1965.

Episcopate

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appointed him

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on 18 September 1965. As a bishop he was present at the last session of the

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in 1965.

Cardinalate

He was created

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of Santissimo Nome di Gesù by Pope Paul VI on 26 June 1967. He resigned the government of the archdiocese in 1977 due to age limit. He participated in the

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s that elected

Pope John Paul I Pope John Paul I (born Albino Luciani; 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal h ...

and

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

. He died three years later and is buried in his family tomb at Roata Chiusani Cemetery.

References

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