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View Surname: Roncalli


RONCALLI
SOURCE: Location
USAGE: Italian
Meaning & History
Locative surname, from the names of places like Ronco or Ronchi, quite common in northern Italy. It is the surname of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881-1963), pope Giovanni XXIII one of the most the popular popes of the Roman Catholic Church of the last century.


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