Ignazio Bedini Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Ignazio Bedini
Archbishop emeritus of Teheran-Isfahan
Archdiocese:Teheran-Isfahan
Appointed:2 December 1989
Ordination:21 December 1968
Ordained By:Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti
Consecration:6 January 1990
Consecrated By:Pope John Paul II
Birth Date:27 June 1939
Birth Place:Sassomorello, frazione of Prignano sulla Secchia, Italy
Nationality:Italian

Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B., is a former Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Ispahan (Isfahan), Iran.[1]

Bedini was born in Sassomorello, near Modena, Italy, on 27 June 1939 and ordained as a priest of the Order of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco on 21 December 1969. He was appointed archbishop of Ispahan on 2 December 1989 and consecrated on 6 January 1990. He resided in Tehran. He is the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Iran, though he is the only Latin Rite member of the conference, with the others being of the Armenian and Chaldean Rites.

Archbishop Bedini, retirement was announced by the Holy See effective 20 January 2015.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Magister. Sandro. La Chiesa rompe il silenzio sull'islam degli ayatollah. December 23, 2010. L'espresso. November 11, 2005. Italian.
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html