Giuseppe Cavallotto

{{Short description|Italian Catholic bishop (1940–2025)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = bishop

| honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend

| native_name_lang = Spanish

| name = Giuseppe Cavallotto

| honorific-suffix =

| title = Bishop Emeritus of Cuneo
Bishop Emeritus of Fossano

| image = Giuseppe Cavallotto in 2023.png

| image_size =

| alt =

| caption = Cavallotto in 2023

| church = Catholic Church

| archdiocese = Turin

| appointed = 24 August 2005

| term =

| term_start =

| term_end = 9 October 2015

| predecessor = Natalino Pescarolo

| successor = Piero Delbosco

| other_post =

| ordination = 29 June 1964

| ordained_by =

| consecration = 15 October 2005

| consecrated_by = Severino Poletto

| cardinal =

| created_cardinal_by =

| rank =

| birth_name = Giuseppe Cavallotto

| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|2|13|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Vinchio, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|04|27|1940|2|13|df=yes}}

| death_place = Cuneo, Italy

| buried =

| nationality = Italian

| motto = Vitam impendere vero

| coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Giuseppe Cavallotto.svg

}}

{{Infobox bishopstyles |

| name = Giuseppe Cavallotto

| dipstyle =

• His Excellency
• The Most Reverend

| offstyle = Your Excellency

| relstyle = Bishop

| image = Coat of arms of Giuseppe Cavallotto.svg

| image_size = 200px

}}

Giuseppe Cavallotto (13 February 1940 – 27 April 2025) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, who was the Bishop of the dioceses of Cuneo and Fossano from 2005 to 2015.{{Cite web |date=11 October 2015 |title=Diocesi di Cuneo |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011223240/http://new.diocesicuneo.it/vescovo_biografia.aspx |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=web.archive.org}}

Giuseppe Cavallotto was born in Noche, a hamlet of Vinchio, in the province and diocese of Asti, on 13 February 1940.{{Cite web |title=RINUNCE E NOMINE |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/08/24/0435/01003.html#RINUNCIA%20DEL%20VESCOVO%20DI%20CUNEO%20E%20DI%20FOSSANO%20(ITALIA)%20E%20NOMINA%20DEL%20SUCCESSORE |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=press.vatican.va}}{{Cite web |title=Rinunce e nomine |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/10/09/0770/01656.html |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=press.vatican.va}} On 24 August 2005 he was appointed bishop of the dioceses united in persona episcopi of Cuneo and Fossano by Pope Benedict XVI.{{Cite web |date=6 October 2014 |title=Urbaniana, la proposta dell’ex rettore Cavallotto: ‘La Chiesa valuti l’ipotesi delle seconde nozze cristiane’ {{!}} Pacem in terris |url=http://blog.quotidiano.net/panettiere/2014/10/06/urbaniana-la-proposta-dellex-rettore-cavallotto-la-chiesa-valuti-lipotesi-delle-seconde-nozze-cristiane/ |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=Blog Quotidiano.net |language=it-IT}}

Cavallotto died in Cuneo on 27 April 2025, at the age of 85.{{cite news |title=Cuneo, è morto Mons. Giuseppe Cavallotto |url=https://laguida.it/2025/04/27/cuneo-e-morto-mons-giuseppe-cavallotto/ |access-date=24 May 2025 |publisher=La Guida |date=27 April 2025}}