Nicola Riezzo (11 December 1904 - 20 August 1998) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Otranto from 1969 until his retirement in 1981.
Following his retirement in 1981 he moved to his hometown where he served as a pastor in his childhood San Nicola parish where he was known for remaining for extended periods in the confessional and out visiting the sick.
[2][1] He attended school first at the Calasanzio-run institute at Campi Salentina and then in 1923 entered the Capranica College in Rome in addition to the Pontifical Gregorian where he earned a degree in theological studies.
[2] He received his ordination to the priesthood in the San Nicola parish on 21 August 1927 from Gennaro Trama and following this taught students in Lecce.
Riezzo later started serving as a professor for theological studies in Assisi from 1932 until 1934 and then taught dogmatics in Molfetta from 1934 until 1958 in addition to teaching asceticism.
Riezzo was nominated in 1958 as the newest Bishop of Castellaneta and he received his episcopal consecration in the Lecce Cathedral on 29 June 1958 from Francesco Minerva and with Corrado Ursi and Guglielmo Montolese serving as the co-consecrators.