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Elzear Torreggiani D.D., O.S.F.C, (28 May 1830 – 28 January 1904) was a Catholic Bishop of Armidale, New South Wales.

Torregiani was born in Porto Recanati, Loreto district, Papal States, Italy and consecrated bishop on 25 March 1879. Prior to coming to Australia the bishop had had large experience of pastoral work in England and the south of Wales. He was Superior of the Capuchin Monastery in Lower Park Road, Peckham, at the date of his appointment.

See also

• Catholic Church in Australia

References

1. ^ Duffy, C. J. "Torreggiani, Elzear (1830–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
2. ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). "Torreggiani, Right Rev. Elzear" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
3. P. Colbourne, Bishop Torreggiani and the early Capuchins in the Diocese of Armidale, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 25 (2004), 21-31.

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