Ambrogio Ravasi

Ambrogio Ravasi, I.M.C. (7 February 1929 – 30 October 2020) was an Italian-born Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate who was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marsabit from 1981 until 2006. He was appointed bishop on 19 June 1981 by Pope John Paul II. His age-related resignation as bishop took effect on 25 November 2006. He died on 30 October 2020 as Bishop Emeritus of Marsabit. He was 91 years old at the time.

Early life and education He was born on 7 February 1929 in Bellusco, in the Archdiocese of Milan, in Italy.

Priest He was ordained a priest of the Consolata Missionaries on 9 February 1957, in Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia, United States by Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia. On 6 November 2006, he was buried at the Maria Mfariji (Mary the Consoler) Shrine in Marsabit, as he had willed.