Gianni Baget Bozzo (8 March 1925 – 8 May 2009[1]) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.
Baget Bozzo was born in Savona, Liguria, and raised in Genoa where he graduated in law.
He was at one-time a Christian Democracy activist,[2] and in 1984, he was elected at the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party.
[3] From 1994, he had been a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.
In theology, he was a follower of Joseph Ratzinger's theories.