Cesare Mazzolari
{{short description|Roman Catholic bishop in South Sudan}}
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| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend
| name = Cesare Mazzolari M.C.C.I.
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| title = Bishop of Rumbek
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| diocese = Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek
| see = Rumbekl
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| appointed = November 5, 1998
| term = July 16, 2011
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| predecessor = Gabriel Dwatuka Wagi
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| successor = Christian Carlassare M.C.C.I.
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| ordination = March 17, 1962
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| consecration = January 6, 1999
| consecrated_by = pope John Paul II
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| birth_place = Brescia, Italy
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| death_place = Rumbek, South Sudan
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| nationality = Italian
| religion = Roman Catholic Church
| residence = Rumbek, South Sudan
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| previous_post = Apostolic administrator at Diocese of Rumbek
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Cesare (or Caesar) Mazzolari (9 February 1937 – 16 July 2011) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, in the newly independent Republic of South Sudan.
Biography
Bishop Mazzolari was born Feb. 9, 1937 in Brescia, Italy. He joined the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, and on 17 March 1962 was ordained a priest in San Diego, USA. His mission brought him to Cincinnati, in the United States, where he worked among African American and Mexican American miners.
He rebuilt the Diocese of Rumbek, after the two Southern Sudanese Secession Wars (1955–1973 and 1983–2005) had devastated the country and the Government of Khartoum had expelled all foreign missionaries from the country in the 1960s.[http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18623 Independent Catholic News: "South Sudan: Peacemaker Bishop Mazzolari has died"] July 17, 2011[http://www.radiovaticana.org/EN3/articolo.asp?c=505712 Vatican Radio: "Catholic Diocese of Rumbek: The death of Bishop Caesar Mazzolari"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930063838/http://www.radiovaticana.org/EN3/articolo.asp?c=505712 |date=September 30, 2011 }} July 19, 2011[http://www.thecincinnatiherald.com/news/2011-07-23/News/Comboni_Bishop_Caesar_Mazzolari_dies.html Cincinnati Herald: "Comboni Bishop Caesar Mazzolari dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328015330/http://www.thecincinnatiherald.com/news/2011-07-23/News/Comboni_Bishop_Caesar_Mazzolari_dies.html |date=2012-03-28 }} July 18, 2011.
He died a week later, on 16 July 2011, at the age of 74, while concelebrating a Mass.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmazzc.html Bishop Cesare Mazzolari]
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- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmazzc.html Father Mazzolari on Catholic Hierarchy] {{in lang|en}}
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{{S-bef|before=Gabriel Dwatuka Wagi}}
{{S-ttl|title=Bishop of Rumbek|years=5 November 1998–16 July 2011}}
{{s-aft|after=Christian Carlassare M.C.C.I.}}
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Category:Italian Roman Catholic bishops in Africa
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Sudan