Benito Cocchi
- May 5, 2016
- 81 years
About Benito Cocchi
Benito Cocchi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1996–2010).
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|Benito Cocchi (5 November 1934 – 5 May 2016) was an Italian Catholic prelate.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1959, Cocchi served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Bologna from 1974 until 1982. He then served as Bishop of Parma from 1982 to 1996. Cocchi then served as Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola from 1996 until 2010.
He presided at the funeral Mass of Luciano Pavarotti in Modena's Duomo on 8 September 2007.
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