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Bruno Schettino

Italian archbishop and theologian (1941-2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ187453 ↗
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Bruno Schettino (5 January 1941 in Marigliano – 21 September 2012) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua, Italy.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1964, Schettino was made bishop in 1987 and died while in office.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 2012, 1964, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-01-05. The account is most persuasive where Bruno, Schettino and Italian can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q187453. VIAF identifies the subject as 233149583. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 2012, 1964 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bruno Schettino” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.