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Alfredo Zecca Rather than allowing him to become Archbishop emeritus, as is normal in cases of retirement, he was assigned the titular see of Bolsena and remains an active bishop. According to some reports, Pope Francis removed Zecca not for health reasons but because he had accepted the government authorities' ruling of suicide in the case of a priest who had been a longtime campaigner against drug traffickers found hanged on 5 October 2016. Alfredo Zecca Alfredo Horacio Zecca (born September 27, 1949) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church He served as archbishop of Tucumán from 2011 to 2017, when