(22 December 1861 – 18 May 1937) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent a decade preaching throughout Italy, then served as a papal diplomat in Latin America for ten years, and ended his career leading the Diocese of Vigevano from 1921 to 1937.
[2] He received his episcopal consecration in the church of San Domenico in Turin on 6 June 1909 and was installed on 31 October.
[1] On 23 September 1910, he was named titular archbishop of Damascus and Apostolic Delegate to Peru and Bolivia, a single title.
[5] In Peru he was tasked with a program of ecclesiastical reform, beginning with an episcopal assembly in 1911, the erection of a central seminary in Lima, and standards for clerical behavior and education.
[6][7] He also had to contend with the government's pressure to create a new diocese to promote its claims in a territorial disputed with Colombia.