Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | Bishop |
Alphonsus Beretta, PIME | |
Honorific Suffix: | Ayyagaru |
The Most Reverend | |
Church: | Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions |
Appointed: | 23 December 1950 (in Hyderabad) 8 January 1953 (in Warangal) |
Term: | 1950-1953 (in Hyderabad) 1953-1985 (in Warangal) |
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Predecessor: | Dionisio Vismara, PIME (in Hyderabad) Position created (in Warangal) |
Successor: | G. Joseph Mark, RCM (in Hyderabad) T. Bala, RCM (in Warangal) |
Ordination: | 22 September 1934 |
Ordained By: | Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions |
Consecration: | 8 April 1951 |
Consecrated By: | Principal Consecrator: A. I. Shuster, OSB Principal Co-Consecrators: L. M. Balconi, PIME and D. Bernareggi, RCM |
Rank: | Bishop |
Birth Date: | 26 December 1911 |
Birth Place: | Brugherio (Italy) |
Death Place: | Karunapuram, Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014) |
Buried: | RCM-Fatima Cathedral, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014) |
Nationality: | Italian |
Religion: | Christianity |
Partner: | --> |
Occupation: | Priest |
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Education: | B. Th. |
Alma Mater: | PIME Seminary, Monza (Italy) |
Alfonso Beretta P.I.M.E. (26 December 1911 – 23 May 1998, Alfonso Beretta) was an Italian Bishop of Warangal.
Beretta was born in Brugherio in 1911 on Boxing Day. He was ordained as a priest on 22 September 1934 as a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. He was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hyderabad, India on 23 Dec 1950 and consecrated on 8 April 1951. He was appointed to be the Bishop of Warangal in India on 8 Jan 1953.[1]
Beretta retired on 30 November 1985 and he died in Warangal in 1998 as the Bishop Emeritus of Warangal.[2]