Angelo Moreschi

Angelo Moreschi S.D.B. (13 June 1952 – 25 March 2020) was an Italian missionary of the Catholic Church who spent his career in Ethiopia. He was prefect apostolic of Gambella, and became vicar apostolic there when he became a bishop in 2010.

Biography Moreschi was born in Nave, Italy, on 13 June 1952. He attended seminary in Chiari and studied theology in Bethlehem. He was ordained a priest on 2 October 1982. On 25 November 2000, Pope John Paul II named him the first Prefect of Gambella, Ethiopia. On 5 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named him Apostolic Vicar of the newly created Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella and titular bishop of Elephantaria in Mauretania. He received his episcopal consecration on 31 January 2010.