Bartolomeo Cattaneo

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Bartolomeo Cattaneo
Apostolic Delegate to Australia
ChurchCatholic Church
In office16 May 1917 – January 1933
PredecessorBonaventura Cerretti
SuccessorFilippo Bernardini
Other postTitular Archbishop of Palmyra (1917-1943)
Orders
Ordination2 August 1891
Consecration10 June 1917
by Domenico Serafini
Personal details
Born(1866-09-26)26 September 1866
Novi Ligure, Province of Alessandria, Kingdom of Italy
Died14 May 1943(1943-05-14) (aged 76)

Bartolomeo Cattaneo (26 September 1866 – 14 May 1943) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1917 and was Apostolic Delegate to Australia from 1917 to 1933.

Biography

Bartolomeo Cattaneo was born on 26 September 1866 in Novi Ligure, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 2 August 1891. He studied at the Almo Collegio Capranica from 1889 to 1894.[1]

He was Rector of the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide, the training institute for missionaries, when, on 16 May 1917, Pope Benedict XV appointed him Apostolic Delegate to Austrasia and titular archbishop of Palmyra.[2] He received his episcopal consecration on 10 June 1917 from Cardinal Domenico Serafini. He was tasked with creating an indigenous hierarchy and priesthood as Pope Benedict had called for in his recent encyclical Maximum Illud and did so over the objections of local Irish bishops.[3] In Australia, he was also friendly with local Italian fascist leaders.[4]

His assignment in Australia ended early in 1933 when he was 66.[a]

He died on 14 May 1943.[6]

Notes

  1. His successor, Filippo Bernardini, was appointed on 16 March 1933.[5]

References

  1. Carteggio, Lettere a Murri, 1889-1897 (in Italian). Vol. I. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. 1970. p. 69n.
  2. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. IX. 1917. pp. 300, 343. Retrieved 15 May 2020. Delegato Apost, dell'Australasia ... Delegatum Apostolicum in Australasia
  3. Boland, T.P. (1996). "Gilroy, Sir Norman Thomas (1896 - 1977)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  4. Cresciani, Gianfranco (2003). The Italians in Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780521537780. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  5. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXV. 1933. pp. 123, 505. Retrieved 15 May 2020. Delegatum Apostolicum in Australasia
  6. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. XXXV. 1943. p. 192. Retrieved 15 May 2020.