Ernesto Maria Piovella
Ernesto Maria Piovella O.SS.C.A. (29 October 1867, Milan - 18 February 1949, Cagliari) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and bishop.
Life[]
He entered the oblate missionaries of Rho and served as vicar general at Ravenna. Pope Pius X made him bishop of Alghero and he was ordained by cardinal Andrea Carlo Ferrari, archbishop of Milan, O.SS.C.A., archbishop of Ravenna and , auxiliary bishop of Milan. He was later made archbishop of Oristano and archbishop of Cagliari. He called a diocesan synod in 1928. He is buried in the Sacra Spina chapel in Cagliari Cathedral and his beatification process has begun.
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Categories:
- Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
- Clergy from Milan
- 1949 deaths
- 1867 births