About Ettore Baranzini
Lived 1881 – 1968 (aged 86). Ettore Baranzini was an Italian writer, catholic priest and catholic bishop.
Ettore Baranzini (22 September 1881 – 6 March 1968) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was secretary to Cardinal Alessandro Lualdi for fifteen years, Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary from 1920 to 1933, and Archbishop of Siracusa for thirty-five years.
Biography Ettore Baranzini was born on 22 September 1881 in Angera, Italy. His studied at the Pontifical Lombard Seminary from 1899 to 1902. He attended the 1922 conclave that elected Pope Pius XI as an assistant to Lualdi.
He received his episcopal consecration on 5 June 1933 from Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani; he was installed in Siracusa on 10 September. Baranzini's role in Ragusa ended on 1 October 1955 when that diocese was detached from Siracusa and Francesco Pennisi, its auxiliary bishop since 1950, became its ordinary.
Baranzini died on 6 March 1968 at the age of 86.
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