Angelo Moreschi –an Italian missionary of the Catholic Church who spent his career in Ethiopia – succumbed to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020.
He was prefect apostolic of Gambella, and became vicar apostolic there when he became a bishop in 2010.
Moreschi was born in Nave, Italy, on 13 June 1952. He took his first vows as a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco on 1 September 1974 and his final vows on 15 August 1980. He attended seminary in Chiari and studied theology in Bethlehem. He was ordained a priest on 2 October 1982.
He spent his career in Ethiopia, where he was Provincial Councilor for the Vice-Province Africa Ethiopia-Eritrea from 1998 to 2001 and pastor in Dilla, South Ethiopia, from 1991 to 2000. On 25 November 2000, Pope John ...
