Ignazio Bedini

{{Short description|Iranian archbishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = [[Excellency#Ecclesiastical_use|His Excellency]], [[The_Most_Reverend#Catholic|The Most Reverend]] | name = Ignazio Bedini | title = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ispahan|Archbishop Emeritus of Ispahan, Iran]] | image = Mons._Ignazio_Bedini.jpg | image_size = | caption = Bedini (left) | church = [[Catholic Church]] | archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan|Teheran-Isfahan]] | diocese = | appointed = 2 December 1989 | predecessor = [[Kevin William Barden]] | successor = [[Dominique Mathieu]] | ordination = 21 December 1968 | ordained_by = [[Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti]] | consecration = 6 January 1990 | consecrated_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|06|27|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Sassomorello]], frazione of [[Prignano sulla Secchia]], [[Italy]] | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | nationality = [[Italians|Italian]] | religion = | residence = | parents = | previous_post = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = | motto = }}

'''Ignazio Bedini''', [[Salesians of Don Bosco|S.D.B.]] (born 27 June 1939) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ispahan|Archbishop of Ispahan]] (Isfahan) in Iran from 1989 to 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last=Magister|first=Sandro|title=La Chiesa rompe il silenzio sull'islam degli ayatollah|url=http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/41931|accessdate=December 23, 2010|newspaper=L'espresso|date=November 11, 2005|language=Italian}}</ref>

Bedini was born in Sassomorello, near [[Modena]], Italy, and ordained as a priest of the Order of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco on 21 December 1969. He was appointed archbishop of Ispahan on 2 December 1989 and consecrated on 6 January 1990. He resided in [[Tehran]]. He was the head of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Iran, though he was the only [[Latin Church|Latin Rite]] member of the conference, with the others being of the [[Armenian Rite|Armenian]] and [[Chaldean Rite]]s.

Archbishop Bedini's retirement was announced by the Holy See effective 20 January 2015.<ref>http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedini.html {{Self-published source|date=June 2015}}</ref>

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