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Carlos Parteli

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Carlos Parteli Keller
Archbishop of Montevideo
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Montevideo
In office 17 November 1976 – 5 June 1985
Predecessor Antonio María Barbieri
Successor José Gottardi Cristelli
Previous posts Titular Archbishop of Turris in Mauretania (1966-1976)
Coadjutor Archbishop of Montevideo (1966-1976)
Bishop of Tacuarembó (1960-1966)
Orders
Ordination 15 April 1933
Consecration 27 December 1960
by Raffaele Forni
Personal details
Born 8 March 1910
Rivera, Uruguay
Died 26 May 1999 (aged 89)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence Montevideo

Carlos Parteli Keller (Rivera, 8 March 1910 – Montevideo, 26 May 1999) was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric.

Biography

At 13 years of age he entered the Minor Seminary and at 16 he was sent to Rome by the second Bishop of Melo José Joaquín Arrospide to study at the South American College in Rome. He studied philosophy and theology and was ordained priest on Holy Saturday of 1933 in the Church of San Juan Bautista Berrán. On his return to Uruguay he served as parish priest of the Cathedral of Florida until 1939, when he became secretary of Bishop Miguel Paternain.

In 1942 he moved to Rivera, where he was appointed pastor of the Immaculate Conception Parish Church. Later, in 1960, he was appointed bishop of then newly created Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacuarembó.

He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Montevideo and titular bishop of Turris in Mauretania in 1966. A decade later, on 17 November 1976, he succeeded as Archbishop of Montevideo.

At the age of 75 years in 1985 Partelli provided renounces to his title and went to reside in an adjoining inter-diocesan seminary, near San Carlos Borromeo Parish in Millan Avenue. He died in 1999.