Enrique Angelelli
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Bishop Enrique Angelelli Servant of God |
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| Bishop of La Rioja | |
Angelelli at Mass.
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Diocese | La Rioja |
| See | La Rioja |
| Appointed | 3 July 1968 |
| Installed | 24 August 1968 |
| Predecessor | Horacio Arturo Gómez Dávila |
| Successor | Bernardo Enrique Witte |
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| Ordination | 9 October 1949 |
| Consecration | 12 March 1961 by Ramón José Castellano |
| Rank | Bishop |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Enrique Ángel Angelelli |
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18 July 1923 Córdoba, Argentina |
| Died | 4 August 1976 (aged 53) Sañogasta, Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina |
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| Motto | Para que todos sean uno ("So that all may be one") |
| Sainthood | |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Servant of God |
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Enrique Ángel Angelelli (17 June 1923 – 4 August 1976) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina and assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues.
His cause of sainthood opened in 2015 and is titled a Servant of God. Angelelli, whose commitment to the "Church of the Poor" offered a model for the future Pope Francis, was murdered two months after U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's ruling military dirty "warriors" a green light for their illegal repression, which included the torture and murder of tens of thousands and the creation of more than 340 clandestine concentration camps throughout the country.
Angelelli was the son of Italian immigrants and was born in Córdoba. He began his studies for the priesthood and entered the seminary of Our Lady of Loreto at 15 years of age. He was then sent to Rome to finish his studies. He was ordained as a priest on 9 October 1949 and returned to Córdoba.
He started working in a parish, founded youth movements and visited Córdoba's slums. He focused his pastoral work on the conditions of the poor. Pope John XXIII appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Córdoba on 12 December 1960. He became involved in labor union conflicts and worked with other priests looking for a renewal of the church, which led to him being arrested, and in 1964 he was removed from his post. In the same year he took part in the Second Vatican Council.
Angelelli gave tacit authorisation to the May 1968 first Encounter of the Movement of Priests for the Third World, though he never joined the movement himself.
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