Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto

His Excellency

Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto
Archbishop Emeritus of Archdiocese of Curitiba
Appointed28 December 1970
Term ended19 May 2004
PredecessorManoel da Silveira d’Elboux
SuccessorMoacyr José Vitti
Previous postsTitular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Curitiba (1966–1970)
Orders
Ordination6 December 1953
by Manoel da Silveira d’Elboux
Consecration28 August 1966
by Sebastiano Baggio
Personal details
BornPedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto
(1926-08-11) 11 August 1926
Colônia Antônio Rebouças, Campo Largo, Paraná, Brazil
ParentsGiácomo Fedalto
Corona Marchetti
MottoVeritatem in caritate

Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto (born 11 August 1926) is a Brazilian Catholic prelate, who served as an Auxiliary Bishop (1966–1970), and later, as a Metropolitan Archbishop (1970–2004) of Archdiocese of Curitiba.

Biography

Feadlto was born in Colônia Antônio Rebouças, Campo Largo, Paraná in Brazil in a family of Giácomo Fedalto and Corona Marchetti of the Italian descents.[1] He studied at the Central Seminary of the Immaculate Conception of Ipiranga, São Paulo, and was ordained priest at the Cathedral Basilica Minor of Our Lady of Light, Curitiba, for his native Archdiocese of Curitiba, on 6 December 1953.[2][3]

In the same year he become a chaplain of the College of the Sisters of Divine Providence and after worked as a professor and spiritual director at the Queen of the Apostles Major Seminary and chancellor of the Archdiocese of Curitiba.[1]

On 30 May 1966 Pope Paul VI appointed him as a Titular Bishop of Castellum Tatroportus and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Curitiba and he received the episcopal consecration on 28 August of the same year from Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil, archbishop Sebastiano Baggio as a principal consecrator, and a co-consecrators Manoel da Silveira d’Elboux, archbishop of Curitiba and Jerônimo Mazzarotto, auxiliary bishop of Curitiba at the Cathedral Basilica Minor of Our Lady of Light in Curitiba.[2][1]

On 28 December 1970, he was transferred as a Metropolitan Archbishop to the see of Curitiba and on 19 May 2004 he retired from the pastoral governance of the diocese because of the age limit.[4][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Dom Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto (2016) Education – Campo Largo – Paraná". memoriasparana.com.br (in Portuguese). 4 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Archbishop Pedro Antônio Marchetti Fedalto". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Dom Pedro Fedalto - Década de 1970". curitibahistorica.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Rinunce e nomine". press.vatican.va. Retrieved 3 November 2025.