Lorenzo Piretto

His Excellency Lorenzo Piretto O.P.
Archbishop of Izmir
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Izmir
In office	November 7, 2015
Predecessor	Ruggero Franceschini
Orders
Ordination	August 4, 1969
Consecration	December 20, 2015 by Boghos Lévon Zékiyan
Personal details
Born	December 15, 1943 Mazzè
Nationality	Italy
Previous post	Parish priest, Istanbul Professor at University of Marmara
Alma mater	University of Bologna University of Turin
Motto	Misericordia
Coat of arms

Styles of Lorenzo Piretto
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Lorenzo Piretto O.P. is the Archbishop of Izmir and a Dominican friar.^[1] He was ordained to the episcopate and installed as Archbishop of Izmir on December 20, 2007, five days after his 72nd birthday.

Family life

Lorenzo Piretto was born in Mazzè in the frazione of Tonengo in 1942, and was ordained as a Dominican priest in 1966. He continued his theological studies in Bologna, where he was licensed in 1967, and in Turin where he became a doctor in 1972. From 1967 to 1974 he taught philosophy at the Dominican seminary of Chieri.

Form 1983 to 2005 he taught Italian at University of Marmara and in the same time was journalist in the Christian review Presence.

From 2004 he is parson in St Peter and Paul church in Istanbul.

On November 7, 2015, Pope Francis appointed him as the new Archbishop of Izmir.^[2] He was consecrated on December 20, 2015, by Armenian Catholic Archeparch of Istanbul Boghos Lévon Zékiyan.

References

1. "Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo di Izmir (Turchia) e nomina del successore" (in Italian). press.vatican.va. November 7, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
2. "Fr. Lorenzo Piretto OP, new bishop of Izmir, Turkey" (in Italian). op.org. November 7, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015.