Gaetano Guindani
Appearance
Styles of Camillo Guindani | |
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Reference style | The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Monsignor |
Posthumous style | none |
Gaetano Camillo Guindani[1] (1834-1904) was an Italian prelate that was named bishop of Bergamo in the late years of the 19th century.
Life and career
Born in Cremona[2] at the time part of Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, after his degree in theology at Pontifical Gregorian University he was ordained priest for his native diocese. He taught dogmatic theology at Cremona's seminary then from 1865 to 1872 he was rector of the seminary. In 1872 pope Pius IX named him bishop of Borgo San Donnino now Fidenza, in 1879 he was transferred by pope Leo XIII to the diocese of Bergamo. He died in 1904 in Bergamo.
Notes
In 1889 he confirmed the young Angelo Roncalli elected in 1958 pope John XXIII[3]