Michele Zezza (

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, 7 April 1850 – 26 June 1927) was a

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

patriarch and Catholic Archbishop of Naples, Italy.

Biography

Michele Zezza of the Barons of Zapponeta was born in Naples on 7 April 1850 and was ordained a priest on 21 September 1872. On 1 June 1891 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Naples and bishop of Calidone. He received the episcopal consecration on 21 June that year. On 12 June 1893 he was appointed bishop of

Pozzuoli Pozzuoli (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean Peninsula. History Pozzuoli began as the Greek colony of ''Dicaearchia'' ( el, Δικα ...

.David Chene
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at Catholic-Hierarchy.org In 1896 he established, at the church of San Raffaele di Pozzuoli, the diocesan center of the apostolate of prayer and the watchdog association in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. On 3 July 1919 he was promoted to Archbishop Coadjutor, with the right of succession, of

and archbishop of Ancira. He was Archbishop of Naples from 4 April 1923 to 20 December 1923, the day of nomination to Patriarch of Constantinople. He died on 26 June 1927.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zezza, Michele 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops

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