Alphonso Beretta Explained

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
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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.

Life

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/wara0.htm Diocese of Warangal
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bberetta.html Alfonso Beretta