Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific Prefix: | His Most Reverend Eminence |
Michele Pellegrino | |
Archbishop Emeritus of Turin | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Turin |
See: | Turin |
Appointed: | 18 September 1965 |
Enthroned: | 21 November 1965 |
Term End: | 1 August 1977 |
Predecessor: | Maurilio Fossati |
Successor: | Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero |
Other Post: | Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Gesù pro hac vice (1967-86) |
Ordination: | 19 September 1925 |
Ordained By: | Quirico Travaini |
Consecration: | 17 October 1965 |
Consecrated By: | Giovanni Francesco Dadone |
Cardinal: | 26 June 1967 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Paul VI |
Rank: | Cardinal-Priest |
Birth Name: | Michele Pellegrino |
Birth Date: | 25 April 1903 |
Birth Place: | Centallo, Cuneo, Italy |
Death Place: | Cottolengo Hospital, Turin, Italy |
Parents: | Giuseppe Pellegrino Angela Ristorti |
Alma Mater: | University of the Sacred Heart, Milan |
Motto: | Evangelizare pauperibus |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Michele Pellegrino.svg |
Cardinal Name: | Michele Pellegrino |
Dipstyle: | His Eminence |
Offstyle: | Your Eminence |
Relstyle: | Cardinal |
See: | Turin |
Michele Pellegrino (25 April 1903 – 10 October 1986) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Turin from 1965 until 1977.[1]
Pellegrino was born in Centallo, province of Cuneo. He was educated at the Seminary of Fossano, Catholic University of Milan, and the Theological Faculty in Turin. He was ordained on 19 September 1925 in Fossano. After his ordination he served as spiritual director of the Seminary of Fossano from 1929 until 1933. He was Canon of the cathedral chapter of Fossano, vicar general and vicar capitular of the diocese between 1933 and 1943. He taught early Christian literature as a faculty member of the University of Turin until 1965.
Pope Paul VI appointed him Archbishop of Turin on 18 September 1965. As a bishop he was present at the last session of the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Gesù by Pope Paul VI on 26 June 1967. He resigned the government of the archdiocese in 1977 due to age limit. He participated in the conclaves that elected Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II. He died three years later and is buried in his family tomb at Roata Chiusani Cemetery.