Clemente Gaddi
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| type = Bishop
| name = Clemente Gaddi
| title = Bishop of Diocese of Bergamo
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| church = Roman Catholic Church
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| see = Diocese of Bergamo
| term = 1963 - 1977
| predecessor = Giuseppe Piazzi
| successor = Giulio Oggioni
| ordination = September 18, 1926
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| consecration = September 6, 1953
| consecrated_by = Mgr Felice Bonomini
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1901|12|23}}
| birth_place = Somana of Mandello del Lario, {{ITA}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|11|7|1901|12|23}}
| death_place = Bergamo
| previous_post = Diocese of Nicosia
Archdiocese of Siracusa
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| nationality = {{flag|Italy|name=Italian}}
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Clemente GaddiC. Epis, Gaddi Vescovo tra la gente,2001 {{Full citation needed|date=September 2018}} (23 December 1901 – 7 November 1993)http://portale.lombardinelmondo.org/nazioni/Europa/Articoli/storiaemi/gaddicle {{self-published source|date=September 2018}} was an Italian prelate who was bishop of Bergamo in the years after the Second Vatican Council.
Life
He was born in Mandello del Lario and ordained as a priest in 1926. From 1926 to 1953 he worked as professor of the seminary of Como and then prevost of Cernobbio.
In 1953, pope Pius XII named him bishop of Nicosia, and in 1962 pope John XXIII appointed him as Coadjutor archbishop of the Siracusa.
In 1963, after the death of bishop Giuseppe Piazzi he was named bishop of Bergamo with the personal title of Archbishop.
In 1977, he resigned from his post as bishop, and died in Bergamo where he is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Bergamo.[http://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/Cronaca/109809_la_tomba_del_vescovo_amadei_visitabile_dalle_15_del_4_gennaio/ From L'Eco di Bergamo website]
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External links and additional sources
- {{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Diocese of Bergamo |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dberg.html |accessdate=June 15, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
- {{Cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|authorlink=|title=Diocese of Bergamo |publisher=GCatholic.org|date=|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/berg0.htm |accessdate=June 15, 2018}} (for Chronology of Bishops) Wikipedia:SPS
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