Ettore Baranzini

Ettore Baranzini (22 September 1881 – 6 March 1968) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was secretary to Cardinal Alessandro Lualdi for fifteen years, Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary from 1920 to 1933, and Archbishop of Siracusa for thirty-five years.

He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Milan on 27 March 1904 and in December began a fifteen-year stint secretary to Alessandro Lualdi, the new Archbishop of Palermo.

[1] On 28 July 1920, he was named Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary, his alma mater, which Pope Benedict XV had just restored as an independent institution.

[3] He received his episcopal consecration on 5 June 1933 from Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani; he was installed in Siracusa on 10 September.

[4] Baranzini's role in Ragusa ended on 1 October 1955 when that diocese was detached from Siracusa and Francesco Pennisi, its auxiliary bishop since 1950, became its ordinary.