José Gottardi Cristelli
José Gottardi Cristelli SDB (born September 21, 1923 in Baselga di Piné , Trento , † March 7, 2005 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) was an Italian religious priest , missionary and Roman Catholic archbishop .
Life
His family immigrated to Uruguay when he was six years old. There he later joined the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco as a missionary . On October 15, 1950 he received in Rosario the priesthood .
Within the religious community he was a provincial in Bolivia , Uruguay, Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay .
Pope Paul VI appointed him on March 1, 1972 auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Mercedes , associated with the titular diocese of Bellicastrum . The episcopal ordination donated to him on April 30 of the same year the nuncio in Uruguay, Archbishop Augustin-Joseph Antoine Sépinski OFM ; Co- consecrators were Andrés María Rubio Garcia SDB, Auxiliary Bishop in Montevideo, and Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González , Bishop of Melo . On May 22, 1975 he was transferred to Montevideo as auxiliary bishop . There he was appointed fifth archbishop by Pope John Paul II on June 5, 1985.
Gottardi was chairman of the Uruguayan Bishops' Conference . During the years of dictatorship (1973–1985) he campaigned for a return to democracy.
On December 4, 1998, the Pope accepted his resignation, followed by his Salesian brother Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi . He died of cancer.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fallció Mons. José Gottardi ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Parteli Keller | Archbishop of Montevideo | Nicolás Cotugno |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gottardi Cristelli, José |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Don Boscos Italian Salesian, missionary and Roman Catholic Archbishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Faida di Pené , Trento |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2005 |
| Place of death | Montevideo |