Alessandro Maggiolini

Alessandro Maggiolini
Bishop of Como
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Como
In office31 January 1989 – 2 December 2006
PredecessorTeresio Ferraroni [it]
SuccessorDiego Coletti
Previous postBishop of Carpi (1983-1989)
Orders
Ordination26 June 1955
by Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini
Consecration29 May 1983
by Sebastiano Baggio
Personal details
Born(1931-07-15)15 July 1931
Bareggio, Province of Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Died11 November 2008(2008-11-11) (aged 77)
Como, Province of Como, Italy

Alessandro Maggiolini (15 July 1931 – 11 November 2008) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Como, Italy.

Life

Born in Bareggio, Italy, Maggiolini was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan on 26 July 1955. On 7 April 1983 Pope John Paul II appointed Maggiolini bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Carpi, Italy, and he was ordained a bishop on 29 May 1983. On 31 January 1989 Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Maggiolini Bishop of the Como Diocese. Bishop Maggiolini retired on 2 December 2006.

In 2000, on rumors about the retirement of Pope John Paul II, Bishop Maggiolini said: "The church is not Fiat or General Motors. Its criteria cannot be efficiency. Even an elderly father can be the conscience of the church and continue to govern it."

Episcopal lineage

Maggiolini's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:

Notes

  1. ↑ "EWTN.com - In Memoriam". www.ewtn.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05.
  2. ↑ "Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Archives". Los Angeles Times.
  4. ↑ David M. Cheney, "Bishop Oscar Cantoni", Catholic Hierarchy, retrieved 2019-08-09