Ignazio Bedini

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Ignazio Bedini
Archbishop emeritus of Teheran-Isfahan
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Teheran-Isfahan
Appointed2 December 1989
Orders
Ordination21 December 1968
by  Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti
Consecration6 January 1990
by  Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Born (1939-06-27) 27 June 1939 (age 84)
Nationality Italian

Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B., is a former Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Ispahan (Isfahan), Iran. [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 is the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Iran, though he is the only Latin Rite member of the conference, with the others being of the Armenian and Chaldean Rites.

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

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  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html [ self-published source ]