{{Short description|Italian archbishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend | name = Giuseppe Petrelli | honorific-suffix = | title = Apostolic Nuncio to Peru<br>Titular Archbishop of Nisibis | image = J. Petrelli 1911.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Petrelli, {{circa|1910}} | appointed = 27 May 1921 | term_end = | other_post = Titular Archbishop of Nisibis | previous_post = {{bulleted list | Bishop of Lipa (1910-1915) | Apostolic Delegate to Philippines (1915-1921) }} | predecessor = Lorenzo Lauri | successor = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 10 August 1896 | ordained_by = | consecration = 12 June 1910 | consecrated_by = Ambrose Agius <!---------- Personal details ---------->| birth_name = Giuseppe Petrelli | birth_date = {{Birth date|1873|02|14}} | birth_place = Montegiorgio, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|04|29|1873|02|14}} | death_place = | buried = | alma_mater = | nationality = Italian | motto = Lux mea Dominus<br>''(The Lord is my light)'' | coat_of_arms = Coat_of_arms_of_Giuseppe Petrelli (Archbishop).svg | coat_of_arms_alt = | signature = }}<!-- He should not be confused with his contemporary of the same name, {{ill|Giuseppe Petrelli (missionary)|lt=Giuseppe Petrelli|it|Giuseppe Petrelli}} (1876–1957), an evangelical missionary and prolific author. -->{{Infobox bishopstyles |name=Giuseppe Petrelli |dipstyle= *His Excellency *The Most Reverend |offstyle=Your Excellency |relstyle=Archbishop |deathstyle= |image = Coat_of_arms_of_Giuseppe Petrelli (Archbishop).svg |image_size = 200px }}
'''Giuseppe Petrelli''' (14 February 1873 – 29 April 1962) also known as '''José Petrelli''' and '''Joseph Petrelli,''' was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See in the Philippines and in Peru.
==Biography== Giuseppe Petrelli was born on 14 February 1873 in Montegiorgio, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 10 August 1896.<ref name=marchi>{{cite book | page = 206 | language = it | title = Le nunziature apostoliche dal 1800 al 1956 | first = Giuseppe | last = De Marchi | publisher = Edizione di Storia e Letteratura | date= 1957 | location = Rome }}</ref>
He studied at the seminary in Fermo and at the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome. In 1903 he went to the Philippines as secretary to apostolic delegation.<ref name=enc/>
He was serving in that post when, on 12 April 1910, Pope Pius X appointed him bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Lipa.<ref>{{cite book |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis |access-date = 7 June 2020| url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-02-1910-ocr.pdf | date=1910 |volume=II |page =289 }}</ref>
He received his episcopal consecration on 12 June 1910 from Archbishop Ambrose Agius, Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines.
On 30 May 1915, Pope Benedict XV named him to succeed Agius as Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines and made him titular archbishop of Nisibis.<ref>{{cite book |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis |access-date = 7 June 2020| url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-07-1915-ocr.pdf |date=1915 |volume=VII |pages = 289, 313, 515}}</ref> In 1916–17 he visited Japan to investigate the state of religious freedom, granted by the Japanese constitution but in practice the government was intolerant of non-Shinto adherents.<ref name=enc>{{cite book |pages= 315, 420–21, 462 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QeFQAQAAMAAJ&q=petrelli | access-date = 7 June 2020 | title = The Catholic Encyclopedia: Supplement 1 | date=1922 | publisher = Encyclopedia Press }} Though the ''Encyclopedia'' says "a delegate apostolic, Mgr. Petrelli, was sent to Japan", he was not Apostolic Delegate to Japan.</ref> In 1918, when the Holy See and China agreed to exchange representatives, Petrelli was proposed as the pope's emissary, but objections from the French government, which had long exercised control over the Church in mission territories, prevented the exchange.<ref>{{cite journal | access-date = 8 June 2020 | journal = Tripod | title = Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871-1949) and Sino-Vatican Diplomatic Relations | url = http://hsstudyc.org.hk/en/tripod_en/en_tripod_152_03.html | first= Sergio | last = Tricozzi | date= Spring 2009 |volume= 29 | issue= 152 }}</ref>
On 27 May 1921, Pope Benedict named him Apostolic Nuncio to Peru.<ref>{{cite book |title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis |access-date = 7 June 2020| url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-13-1921-ocr.pdf |date=1921 |volume=XIII |page = 324 }}</ref>
He resigned in 1925 at the age of 51.<ref name=marchi/>
Petrelli died on 29 April 1962 at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite book |access-date = 7 June 2020 |url = http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-54-1962-ocr.pdf | title = Acta Apostolicae Sedis | page = 304 | date= 1962 | volume = LIV}}</ref>
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