Carmelo Cassati

Carmelo Cassati MSC ( born April 6, 1924 in Saint Eufemia, Lecce, Italy) is an emeritus Archbishop of Trani - Barletta- Bisceglie.

Life

Carmelo Cassati joined the Congregation of the Sacred Heart missionaries and received on 17 December 1949, the ordination.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 27 April 1970 Titular Bishop of Nova Germania and auxiliary bishop in Pinheiro. He received his episcopal consecration of the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri on 28 June of the same year; Were co-consecrators Nicola Riezzo, Archbishop of Otranto, and Archbishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus Curia.

He was appointed on 26 May 1978 prelates of Pinheiro. On May 26, 1978, he renounced under the new guidelines of the Roman Curia on his Titularbischofssitz. On February 12, 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Tricarico and on September 7, 1985 for the Bishop of San Severo and Lucera. On September 30, 1986, he resigned from this office. On December 15, 1990 he was appointed John Paul II appointed Archbishop of Trani - Barletta- Bisceglie and took on 13 November 1999 be on the grounds of age pre- mounted resignation.