Giuseppe Carraro (26 June 1899 – 30 December 1980) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Verona from 1958 until his retirement in 1978.
[2] Carraro has been implicated in the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated against deaf-mute students of the Provolo Institute.
[3] There have been a string of allegations against the late Carraro himself that prompted the cause for his beatification to be suspended around 2010 pending the results of the investigation.
The cause resumed in 2012 after an investigation cleared Carraro of all charges despite discrepancies remaining over the late bishop's actions.
[2] He was considered a man of holiness and this allowed for his cause of beatification to be introduced in 2005 at which stage he was referred to as a Servant of God.
His siblings were: In 1910 Father Eugenio Dorigon suggested to his parents that he commence his studies for the priesthood since Carraro had just finished school at that time.
[2] He became rector in 1944 as the replacement of Vittorio Alessi and worked to ensure that seminarians grew from a cultural and spiritual perspective.
Cardinal Marco Cé - the Patriarch of Venice - celebrated his funeral and said: "We have lost a brother; full of spiritual wisdom and pastoral experience but we have been given an intercessor in heaven".
[2] The introduction of the cause for sainthood took place on a local level on 30 December 2005 even though the Congregation for the Causes of Saints didn't approve the cause to begin until 5 June 2006 (the C.C.S.