Ernesto Coppo
Ernesto Coppo SDB (born February 6, 1870 in Rosignano Monferrato , Alessandria province , Italy ; † December 28, 1948 in Ivrea , Turin province ) was an Italian religious , missionary and Roman Catholic bishop .
Life
As a student of the Salesian Institute of Borgo San Martino , he was a comrade of Don Rua and got to know Don Bosco personally. After his philosophical and theological studies, he was ordained a priest on August 7, 1892 . For a year he taught at the Minor Seminary in his home diocese. Then he decided to become a Salesian of Don Bosco and began his novitiate in Foglizzo on September 20, 1893 . On October 4th of the following year he made his perpetual profession.
On November 28, 1898, he traveled to New York with a group of Salesians , and they arrived there on December 8th. His job was to take care of the growing Italian immigrant community in Little Italy . Together with his confreres he founded the Don Giovanni Bosco Society . In 1902 he became rector of the Church of Transfiguration and the following year president of St. Joseph's College in Troy .
In 1918 the Maria-Hilf-Kirche he wanted was inaugurated.
In 1922 the Holy See asked the Salesians to replace the German Pallottine missionaries in Australia. On December 1, 1922, Coppo was therefore by Pope Benedict XV. Appointed Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley in Western Australia and Titular Bishop of Palaeopolis in Asia . He received the episcopal ordination on December 24, 1922 through his confrere, Bishop Domenico Comin SDB, Vicar Apostolic of Méndez y Gualaquiza . Co-consecrators were St. Aloisius Versiglia SDB, Vicar Apostolic of Shiu Chow , and Auxiliary Bishop Giovanni Battista Pinardi from Turin .
In 1925 he founded the Italian-Australian Society in Brisbane .
In 1928 Pope Pius XI took his resignation from this office. He returned to Italy and died unexpectedly in 1948 during a Marian congress in Ivrea.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| John Creagh CSsR |
Vicar Apostolic of Kimberley in Western Australia 1922–1928 |
Otto Raible SAC |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Coppo, Ernesto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coppo, Ernesto SDB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian religious priest, missionary and Roman Catholic bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosignano Monferrato , Alessandria Province , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1948 |
| Place of death | Ivrea , Province of Turin |