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'''Oscar Cantoni''' is the ] of the ] since 25 January 2005.<ref>http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/01/25/0044/00119.html#NOMINA%20DEL%20VESCOVO%20DI%20CREMA%20(ITALIA)</ref><ref>http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2007/gennaio/02/Volantino_del_vescovo_supermercato_Niente_co_7_070102032.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.adistaonline.it/index.php?op=articolo&id=47329</ref><ref>http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcantoni.html</ref>
'''Oscar Cantoni''' is the ] of the ] since 25 January 2005.<ref>http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2005/01/25/0044/00119.html#NOMINA%20DEL%20VESCOVO%20DI%20CREMA%20(ITALIA)</ref><ref>http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2007/gennaio/02/Volantino_del_vescovo_supermercato_Niente_co_7_070102032.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.adistaonline.it/index.php?op=articolo&id=47329</ref><ref>http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcantoni.html</ref>
Oscar Cantoni is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crema since 25 January 2005.
He was born in Lenno on 1 September 1950 and had moved with his family to the nearby village, Tremezzo, at the age of eight.In 1970, after studies at the Pontificio Collegio Gallio founded by the Somaschi Fathers, he entered the diocesan seminary in order to receive specific theological preparation. In 1975, Cantoni was ordained a priest in the province of Como by bishop Teresio Ferraroni. Until 1982 he performed pastoral activity in the parish of Santa Maria Regina in Muggiò, and later dedicated to the teaching of religion at the technical institute 'Pliny Como'. On 11 July 2000 he was awarded the title of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness by Pope John Paul II. In 2003, all previous assignments had been terminated due to Cantoni being appointed as an episcopal vicar for clergy, a post which he held till being appointed a bishop by Pope John Paul II on 25 January 2005. On 21 November 2010 he received the insignia of Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and was appointed the Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy for Northern Italy by decree of Cardinal John Patrick Foley, the grand master of the order.
