Giovanni Battista Marenco
Giovanni Battista Marenco SDB (born April 27, 1853 in Costa d'Ovada , † October 22, 1921 in Turin ) was a religious priest and Roman Catholic archbishop .
Life
He spent his high school and his philosophical studies in the diocesan study seminar of Acqui . After meeting Don Bosco , he decided to become a Salesian of Don Bosco and entered the Salesian Oratory in Valdocco on May 17, 1873 . He was ordained a priest on December 18, 1875 . At first he worked as a teacher at the municipal college of Alassio and the aristocratic college of Turin-Valsalice. In 1878 Don Bosco sent him to Lucca to open and manage a new Salesian institute at the Kreuzkirche. This was so successful that Don Bosco also entrusted him with the task of directing the construction of the Church of S. Giovanni Evangelista in Turin, which was inaugurated in October 1882 . Marenco stayed there for a little over 5 years. In February 1888 he was transferred to S. Pier d'Arena, where he had to manage the hospice S. Vincenzo de 'Paoli and the parish of St. Gaetano connected with it. Eventually he became a provincial . In 1892 he was called back to the Oratory in Turin, where Don Bosco's successor as Superior General Michael Rua selected him as Vicar General , in particular to consolidate the Institute of the Don Bosco Sisters , who experienced a further great boom under his Directorate General. In November 1889 he was elected General Procurator of the Salesians to the Holy See . During this time he also became a consultor to numerous Vatican congregations .
On April 29, 1909, he was appointed Bishop of Massa Carrara by Pope Pius X. He was ordained bishop on May 16 of the same year. At Don Rua’s request, the consecration took place in the new church of S. Maria Liberatrice. Pope Benedict XV made him in 1917 Apostolic Internuntius of Central America , namely of Costa Rica , Nicaragua and Honduras , combined with the appointment as Archbishop of the titular diocese of Edessa in Macedonia . He also had to represent the Holy See in El Salvador and Guatemala . He thus became the successor of Cardinal Cagliero .
He died of malaria .
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| SURNAME | Marenco, Giovanni Battista |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marenco, Giovanni Battista SDB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian religious and Roman Catholic archbishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Costa d'Ovada |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1921 |
| Place of death | Turin |