Augusto Bertazzoni

Augusto Bertazzoni (10 January 1876 - 30 August 1972) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Potenza from 1930 until his retirement in 1966. He was titled later in his career as an archbishop despite running a normal diocese as opposed to archdiocese; upon his resignation he was given a ceremonial position which he occupied until his death.

The process for his beatification commenced on 8 June 1995 and he was titled as a Servant of God as a result. He retired from his diocese on 30 November 1966 and Pope Paul VI, to compensate for his resignation, appointed him as the first Titular Bishop of Temuniana. This latter role was a ceremonial position and not an actual diocese.

He died after a brief illness on 30 August 1972 and was mourned in his old diocese as a shepherd of God with the reputation of being a saint due to his reputation for personal holiness.

Beatification process The beatification process commenced in Potenza on 8 June 1995 after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints titled him as a Servant of God and issued the "nihil obstat" (no objections) decree which initiated the formal process. The diocesan process of investigation spanned from 30 October 1995 until 2000 and saw the accumulation of both documentation and witness testimonies. The validation of the process was granted in Rome in 2002 in a decree that the C.C.S. issued.

The Positio that documented Bertazzoni's life of heroic virtue was submitted to the C.C.S. in 2013 for further evaluation. In 2018 the cardinal prefect for the C.C.S., Angelo Amato, sent a letter to the Archbishop of Potenza to mention that the theologians would discuss the cause for Bertazzoni in the first half of 2019. Pope Francis titled Bertazzoni as Venerable on 2 October 2019.

The current postulator for this cause is the Salesian priest Pierluigi Cameroni.