Giovanni Benedetti (12 March 1917 – 3 August 2017) was an Italian prelate of Roman Catholic Church.
Benedetti was born in Spello, Italy, in 1917, ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Venice on 26 May 1940.
He also wrote about the works of Angela of Foligno, the 13th-century mystic whom Benedetti lived to see declared a saint by Pope Francis in 2013.
[2] As a bishop in the 1970s, he once gave an interview to the Soviet news agency, a departure from Church practice at the time.
He held a diocesan synod from 1986 to 1991 to allow the laity to participate in planning and in the implementation of the principles and the Second Vatican Council.