{{Short description|Italian Cardinal}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = His Eminence |name = Giuseppe Gamba |image = Cardinal-Giuseppe-Gamba.jpg |title = Cardinal, Archbishop of Turin |church = Roman Catholic Church |archdiocese = Turin |see = Turin |appointed = 20 December 1923 |term_end = 26 December 1929 |predecessor = Agostino Richelmy |successor = Maurilio Fossati |other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (1926-29) |ordination = 18 September 1880 |ordained_by = Carlo Savio |consecration = 23 February 1902 |consecrated_by = Giacinto Arcangeli |cardinal = 20 December 1926 |created_cardinal_by = Pope Pius XI |rank = Cardinal-Priest |birth_name = Giuseppe Gamba |birth_date = 25 April 1857 |birth_place = San Damiano d'Asti, Asti, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1929|12|26|1857|04|25}} |death_place = Turin, Kingdom of Italy |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Bishop of Biella (1901-06)|Bishop of Novara (1906-23)}} |alma_mater = Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare |coat_of_arms = 140px |motto = ''Dirige in conspectus tuo viam meam'' }}
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'''Giuseppe Gamba''' (25 April 1857 – 26 December 1929) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and an archbishop of Turin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=GAMBA, Giuseppe in "Dizionario Biografico" |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-gamba_(Dizionario-Biografico) |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=www.treccani.it |language=it-IT}}</ref>
==Biography== ===Early life and ministry=== Giuseppe Gamba was born in Asti, Italy and was educated at the local Seminary of Asti. He was ordained on 18 September 1880 and did pastoral work and served as the vicar general of the diocese of Asti from 1883 until 1901.
===Episcopate=== He was appointed Bishop of Biella on 16 December 1901 by Pope Leo XIII. He was transferred to the see of Novara on 13 August 1906, where he remained until he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Turin on 20 December 1923.
===Cardinalate=== He was created Cardinal-Priest of ''Santa Maria sopra Minerva'' by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of 20 December 1926. He died in 1929 after being a cardinal for only three years.
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== * Angrisani, Giuseppe. ''Il cardinale Giuseppe Gamba''. {{in lang|it}}. Torino-Roma: Marietti 1930. [eulogistic] *{{cite book|last=Bräuer|first=Martin|title=Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=363pBQAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=De Gruyter|location=Berlin|language=de|page=1910|isbn=978-3-11-026947-5}}
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | before=Agostino Richelmy | title=Archbishop of Turin| after=Maurilio Fossati | years=20 December 1923–26 December 1929}} {{s-end}}
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