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Bishop CasartelliOf great importance to the Italian community of Ancoats was the first
Italian Bishop of Salford and Manchester. Louis Charles Casertelli, son
of Joseph Casartelli, was born in the Cheetham area of Manchester, in
November 1852. Educated in the Salford Catholic Grammar School and the
seminary of Ushaw, he went on to gain a London University M.A. in 1873.
He was ordained at Salford Cathedral in 1876 and studied theology and
Eastern languages at Louvain University. He became the Rector of St.Bede's
College, Manchester, in 1891, and became the fourth bishop of Salford
in 1903. Bishop Casartelli was fluent in several languages, and could
preach with ease in Italian, French, English and German. (The Casartelli family were also famous for the manufacture of barometers and mathematical instruments).
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