Severino Poletto (18 March 1933 – 17 December 2022) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Turin from 1999 to 2010.

[1] He earned a licentiate in moral theology summa cum laude from the Alphonsian Academy in Rome in 1977 and worked as a curate in Montemagno.

In 1965 he was named parish priest in Oltreponte; at the same time he worked part-time in a local factory.

[5] Pope John Paul II created him Cardinal-Priest of San Giuseppe in Via Trionfale on 21 February 2001.

[6] On 15 May John Paul named him a member of the Congregation for the Clergy[7] and on 18 May of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See and the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church.