Giovanni Battista Marenco

Giovanni Battista Marenco SDB, more often known as Giovanni Marenco[a] (27 April 1853 – 22 October 1921) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Roman Curia, led an Italian diocese briefly, and then joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

[2] He joined the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1873[3] and was ordained a priest as a member of that order on 18 December 1875.

[4] He headed various Salesian houses and in 1890 he was appointed provincial of the Ligurian province.

[7] He received his episcopal consecration on 16 May 1909 from Cardinal Francesco di Paolo Satolli.

[4] On 7 January 1917, Pope Benedict XV appointed him titular archbishop of Edessa in Macedonia,[8] and on 2 February he was named Apostolic Internuncio to Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua,[1][b][c] Marenco returned to Italy because of illness[3] and died in Turin on 22 October 1921 at the age of 68.