Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo

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Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo MCCJ (born December 25, 1925 in Santa Giustina in Colle , Province of Padua , Italy , † July 23, 2008 ) was Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Guayaquil , Ecuador .

Life

Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo joined the order of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus . He studied Catholic theology and missiology at the Collegio di Propaganda Fide in Rome and communication studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ("Angelicum"). On March 29, 1952, he was ordained a priest in the Lateran Basilica in Rome. He then worked in the mission, first in Africa, then in Ecuador.

In 1990 he was appointed titular bishop of Cissi by Pope John Paul II and appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Guayaquil , a diocese founded in 1838. He received his episcopal ordination on March 3, 1990, the Archbishop of Guayaquil and Military Bishop of Ecuador, Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín ; Co-consecrators were the former Archbishop of Guayaquil and later Cardinal Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz OFM and Bishop Enrico Bartolucci Panaroni , Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Spagnolo Martellozzo was particularly active as episcopal vicar of Stella Maris in the districts of Guasmo and Malvinas, slums in the rich port city of Guayaquil, where over a million people live, and was therefore also called "Bishop of the Poor". He was also chairman of the Department of Human Resources and Mobility of the Ecuadorian Bishops' Conference .

In 2001 his resignation was granted by Pope John Paul II . He died of heart problems and was buried in the Estella Maris church in Guasmo Sur with great sympathy from the population.

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  1. ↑ a b Dolorosa despedida en el sepelio de Spagnolo ; El Universo, July 26, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Spagnolo Martellozzo, Olindo Natale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian religious, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Guayaquil, Ecuador
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Giustina in Colle , Padua Province, Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2008