Bartolomeo Cattaneo (26 September 1866 – 14 May 1943) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
Bartolomeo Cattaneo was born on 26 September 1866 in Novi Ligure, Italy.
[1] He was Rector of the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide, the training institute for missionaries, when, on 16 May 1917, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Delegate to Austrasia and titular archbishop of Palmyra.
[2] He received his episcopal consecration on 10 June 1917 from Cardinal Domenico Serafini.
He was tasked with creating an indigenous hierarchy and priesthood as Pope Benedict had called for in his recent encyclical Maximum Illud and did so over the objections of local Irish bishops.