Giuseppe Betori

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name=Giuseppe Betori
dipstyle=The Most Reverend
offstyle=Your Excellency
relstyle=Archbishop
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Giuseppe Betori (born 25 February, 1947 in Foligno, Italy) is an Italian cleric of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current Archbishop of Florence and the outgoing Secretary General of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

Ordained priest in 1970. He received a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a doctorate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He was Professor of anthropology biblical exegesis; Dean of the Theological Institute of Assisi. He also served as undersecretary of Italian Episcopal Conference.

He was nominated by Pope John Paul II as Secretary General of the Italian Episcopal Conference and was simultaniously appointed Titular Bishop of Falerone. He received the episcopal consecration on 6 May 2001. He was confirmed as Secretary General of the Italian Episcopal Conference, for a further five year term, on 6 April 2006.

He was appointed to replace Ennio Cardinal Antonelli as Archbishop of Florence by Pope Benedict XVI on 8 September 2008. [cite web|url=http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/22550.php?index=22550&lang=en|title=Nomina dell’Arcivescovo di Firenze (Italia)|publisher=Press Office of the Holy See|language=Italian|date=2008-09-08|accessdate=2008-09-08] As per custom it is expected the Archbishiop Bertori will be created a cardinal in a consistory in the near future, possibly by 2010.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbetori.html Profile of Giuseppe Betori on "Catholic Hierarchy"]

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