Ignazio Bedini

The Most Reverend

Ignazio Bedini
The Most Reverend; Ignazio Bedini
Archbishop emeritus of Teheran-Isfahan
Church	Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Teheran-Isfahan
Appointed	2 December 1989
Orders
Ordination	21 December 1968; by Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti
Consecration	6 January 1990; by Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Born	27 June 1939 (age 85); Sassomorello, frazione of Prignano sulla Secchia, Italy
Nationality	Italian

Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B., is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Chufch who was Archbishop of Ispahan (Isfahan) in Iran from 1989 to 2015.^[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 was the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Iran, though he was the only Latin Rite member of the conference, with the others being of the Armenian and Chaldean Rites.

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

References

^ Magister, Sandro (November 11, 2005). "La Chiesa rompe il silenzio sull'islam degli ayatollah". L'espresso (in Italian). Retrieved December 23, 2010.
^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html ^{[self-published source]}

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[1] Magister, Sandro (November 11, 2005). "La Chiesa rompe il silenzio sull'islam degli ayatollah". L'espresso (in Italian). Retrieved December 23, 2010.

[2] ttp://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html ^{[self-published source]}

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