Pietro Farina

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Pietro Farina (7 May 1942 − 24 September 2013) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

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Ordained to the priesthood in 1966, Farina was named bishop of the Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy, in 1999 and then Bishop of the Diocese of Caserta in 2009 where he died in office.^[1]

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