Carmelo Cassati (6 April 1924 – 3 February 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. Cassati was born in Tricase ordained a priest on 17 December 1949 from the religious order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. In 1950, he was sent as a Missionary to Brazil and then, in 1951, to Peru. The Apostolic Nuncio of Peru, Giovanni Panico, appointed him his secretary.