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Happy Ambrose Fetish War (Volpedo, 7 December 1866 – Gaeta, 10 January 1957) was an Italian Catholic missionary and archbishop.
Biography
He was born in Volpedo on 7 December 1866 by Giovanni and Luigia Fezia. In 1880 Felice Ambrogio Guerra entered the Salesian College of Lanzo Torinese for his humanistic formation....Explore this chapter
He was born in Volpedo on 7 December 1866 by Giovanni and Luigia Fezia.[1] In 1880 Felice Ambrogio Guerra entered the Salesian College of Lanzo Torinese for his humanistic formation. He received his rhetoric and philosophical formation in the seminary Tortona. In 1886 he entered the novitiate of the Salesians of Don Bosco in San Benigno and professed his first vows the following year. Shortly afterwards he went with some companions to the mission in Uruguay, where he was sent to the college of Pío de Villa Colón, near Montevideo.
After completing his philosophical-theological studies, he was ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Federico León Aneiros, on March 25 or April 2, 1890. He celebrated his first Mass in Montevideo on 6 April.
Within the religious community he became director of the College of Higher Studies of Bahía Blanca and taught dogmatics and canon law. In 1908 he was appointed as an auditor of the Apostolic Delegation in Central America and for this purpose he went to Cuba.
On 26 May 1915 Pope Benedict XV appointed him apostolic administrator of Santiago de Cuba, and bishop of Amata. On August 2, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, consecrated him bishop; co-consactors were the Bishop of San Miguel, Juan Antonio Dueñas y Argumedo, and the Bishop of Santa Ana, Santiago Richardo Vilanova y Meléndez.
On 17 April 1916 Pope Benedict XV appointed him Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba. The possession took place on 18 June of the same year.
On 16 December 1924, as "assault of more or less questionable administrative offenses" he resigned and returned to Rome. Pope Pius XI accepted his resignation on January 16, 1925 and appointed him as a titular archbishop of Verissa.[1]
In 1949 and 1951 he was still able to visit the native land.[1]
He died in 1957 as a guest of the Salesian Institute of Gaeta and the psalm will be buried in Rome.[1]
Episcopal Genealogy
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The episcopal genealogy is:
- Cardinal Scipo Rebiba
- Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori
- Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio, O.P.
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale
- Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi
- Cardinal Luigi Caetani
- Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna
- Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
- Pope Benedict XIII
- Pope Benedict XIV
- Pope Clement XIII
- Cardinal Marcantonio Colonna
- Cardinal Giacinto Sigismondo Gerdil, B.
- Cardinal Giulio Maria della Somaglia
- Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi, H.I.
- Cardinal Constantine Patrizi Naro
- Cardinal Lucido Maria Parocchi
- Bishop Manuel Francisco Vélez
- Archbishop Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar
- Archbishop Felice Ambrogio Guerra Fezia, S.D.B.
Notes
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- ^ to b c d A Volpedese Archbishop in Santiago de Cuba, up The Tortona People, 13 October 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
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