Born Faida di Pené, Trento, Italy, on September 21, 1923, Monsignor José Gottardi Cristelli was raised in Uruguay, where his family settled when he was only six years of age. Ordained to the priesthood at 27 years of age, through the Salesian Fathers of Saint John Bosco on October 15, 1950, in Rosario, Argentina.
Inspector of the Houses of the Salesian Fathers in Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Pope Paul VI named Gottardi as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Mercedes, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Bellicastrum, from Archbishop Augustin Joseph Antoine Sépinski OFM., assisted by Bishops Andrés María Rubio Garcia SDB., and Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, on April 30, 1972. He was later transferred to the Archdiocese of Montevideo during the episcopate of Msgr. Carlos Partelli, retaining his same office, on May 22, 1975.
Aged 61, Bishop Gottardi was appointed as Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Montevideo, of which he took possession on July 12, 1985. President of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay, during the years of the Uruguayan Dictatorship, the Archbishop worked intensely so that the Church would be left democratically open to all.
Retiring from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on December 4, 1998, he was succeeded by Msgr. Nicolás Cotugno. The Archbishop died of cancer on March 7, 2005, aged 81. His remains were laid out in state at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Montevideo, were the funeral Mass and interment also took place.
Inspector of the Houses of the Salesian Fathers in Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Pope Paul VI named Gottardi as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Mercedes, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Bellicastrum, from Archbishop Augustin Joseph Antoine Sépinski OFM., assisted by Bishops Andrés María Rubio Garcia SDB., and Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, on April 30, 1972. He was later transferred to the Archdiocese of Montevideo during the episcopate of Msgr. Carlos Partelli, retaining his same office, on May 22, 1975.
Aged 61, Bishop Gottardi was appointed as Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Montevideo, of which he took possession on July 12, 1985. President of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay, during the years of the Uruguayan Dictatorship, the Archbishop worked intensely so that the Church would be left democratically open to all.
Retiring from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on December 4, 1998, he was succeeded by Msgr. Nicolás Cotugno. The Archbishop died of cancer on March 7, 2005, aged 81. His remains were laid out in state at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Montevideo, were the funeral Mass and interment also took place.
Born Faida di Pené, Trento, Italy, on September 21, 1923, Monsignor José Gottardi Cristelli was raised in Uruguay, where his family settled when he was only six years of age. Ordained to the priesthood at 27 years of age, through the Salesian Fathers of Saint John Bosco on October 15, 1950, in Rosario, Argentina.
Inspector of the Houses of the Salesian Fathers in Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Pope Paul VI named Gottardi as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Mercedes, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Bellicastrum, from Archbishop Augustin Joseph Antoine Sépinski OFM., assisted by Bishops Andrés María Rubio Garcia SDB., and Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, on April 30, 1972. He was later transferred to the Archdiocese of Montevideo during the episcopate of Msgr. Carlos Partelli, retaining his same office, on May 22, 1975.
Aged 61, Bishop Gottardi was appointed as Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Montevideo, of which he took possession on July 12, 1985. President of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay, during the years of the Uruguayan Dictatorship, the Archbishop worked intensely so that the Church would be left democratically open to all.
Retiring from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on December 4, 1998, he was succeeded by Msgr. Nicolás Cotugno. The Archbishop died of cancer on March 7, 2005, aged 81. His remains were laid out in state at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Montevideo, were the funeral Mass and interment also took place.
Inspector of the Houses of the Salesian Fathers in Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Pope Paul VI named Gottardi as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Mercedes, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Bellicastrum, from Archbishop Augustin Joseph Antoine Sépinski OFM., assisted by Bishops Andrés María Rubio Garcia SDB., and Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, on April 30, 1972. He was later transferred to the Archdiocese of Montevideo during the episcopate of Msgr. Carlos Partelli, retaining his same office, on May 22, 1975.
Aged 61, Bishop Gottardi was appointed as Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Montevideo, of which he took possession on July 12, 1985. President of the Episcopal Conference of Uruguay, during the years of the Uruguayan Dictatorship, the Archbishop worked intensely so that the Church would be left democratically open to all.
Retiring from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on December 4, 1998, he was succeeded by Msgr. Nicolás Cotugno. The Archbishop died of cancer on March 7, 2005, aged 81. His remains were laid out in state at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Montevideo, were the funeral Mass and interment also took place.
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