Luigi Bettazzi
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Luigi Bettazzi was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Ivrea from 1966 to 1999. One of the youngest and most junior participants in the Second Vatican Council, he was one of th
Bettazzi in 2015
Giacomo Lercaro
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Giacomo Lercaro was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Ravenna from 1947 to 1952, and Archbishop of Bologna from 1952 to 1968. Pope Pius XII made him a cardin
Luigi Bettazzi
…August 1963. He became vicar general of the Archdiocese of Bologna on 1 September 1963 and received his episcopal consecration on 4 October 1963 from Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna, who was one of the four bishops who served as moderators of the Second Vatican Council. Bettazzi was the most recently created bishop of…
Photograph by Dmitri Kessel, 1954
Tombstone of Cardinal Lercaro in the San Pietro Cathedral, Bologna