Type: | Bishop |
Fernando Carlos Maletti | |
Bishop of Merlo-Moreno | |
Diocese: | Merlo-Moreno |
Appointed: | 6 May 2013 |
Term Start: | 9 June 2013 |
Term End: | 8 March 2022 |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1949 |
Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Fernando Carlos Maletti | |
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Fernando Carlos Maletti (17 March 1949 – 8 March 2022) was an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church in Argentina. He served as bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche from 2001 until 2013 and as the bishop of Merlo-Moreno from 2013 until his death in 2022 at the age of 72.
Born in Buenos Aires, Maletti was ordained to the priesthood on 24 November 1973. As a priest he served in various roles:
On 20 July 2001, Maletti was appointed bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 18 September from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires and later Pope Francis, with bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús,, bishop of San Martín, Raúl Omar Rossi, auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul, and auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Eduardo Lozano, serving as co-consecrators. He was installed as bishop on 22 September 2001.
On 6 May 2013, he was appointed bishop of Merlo-Moreno installed on the following 9 June.
As part of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, Maletti served in different roles, including:
Maletti died on 8 March 2022 in Buenos Aires, at the age of 72, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina.[1] A funeral mass for Malettie was celebrated by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Cardinal Primate of Argentina, Mario Aurelio Poli, on 9 March at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Moreno.