Lorenzo Ceresoli

{{Short description|Italian Catholic bishop (1931–2024)}}

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| honorific-prefix = His Excellency

| name = Lorenzo Ceresoli

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| title = Apostolic Vicar Emeritus of Awasa

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| appointed = 20 December 1993

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| term_end = 21 March 2009

| predecessor = Armido Gasparini

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| successor = Giovanni Migliorati

| other_post = Titular Bishop of Fallaba (1993–2024)

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| consecrated_by = Jozef Tomko

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| birth_place = Nave, Italy

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Lorenzo Ceresoli (18 May 1931 – 6 September 2024) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, priest, and member of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (M.C.C.J.). Ceresoli served as the vicar apostolic of the Apostolic Vicariate of Awasa in Ethiopia from 1993 until his retirement in 2000. He was also appointed the Titular Bishop of Fallaba from 1993 until his death in 2024.{{cite news |first=|last=|title=Bishop Lorenzo Ceresoli, M.C.C.I. † |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bceresoli.html |work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org |publisher= |date=6 September 2024 |access-date=30 September 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240930131921/https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bceresoli.html |archive-date=30 September 2024 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |first=Girolamo |last=Miante |title=Mons. Lorenzo Ceresoli: una vita per l'Africa |url=https://www.lavocedelpopolo.it/diocesi/mons-lorenzo-ceresoli-una-vita-per-l-africa#:~:text=Lorenzo%20Ceresoli:%20una%20vita%20per%20l'Africa.%20Mons.%20Lorenzo%20Ceresoli%20%C3%A8 |work=La Voce del Popolo |publisher= |date=7 September 2024 |access-date=30 September 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240930132321/https://www.lavocedelpopolo.it/diocesi/mons-lorenzo-ceresoli-una-vita-per-l-africa |archive-date=30 September 2024 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |first=|last=|title=Lutto nell'episcopato |url=https://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2024-09/quo-201/lutto-nell-episcopato.html#:~:text=S.E.%20Monsignor%20Lorenzo%20Ceresoli,%20vescovo%20titolare%20di%20Fallaba,%20gi%C3%A0%20vicario |work=L'Osservatore Romano |publisher= |date=6 September 2024 |access-date=30 September 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240926000950/https://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2024-09/quo-201/lutto-nell-episcopato.html#:~:text=S.E.%20Monsignor%20Lorenzo%20Ceresoli,%20vescovo%20titolare%20di%20Fallaba,%20gi%C3%A0%20vicario |archive-date=26 September 2024 |url-status=live}}

Ceresoli was born in Nave, Lombardy, Italy, on 18 May 1931. He died in Castel d'Azzano, Italy on 6 September 2024, at the age of 93.