Alessandro Maggiolini
Bishop
TitleBishop of Como
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseDiocese of Como
Term31 January 1989 – 2 December 2006
PredecessorTeresio Ferraroni
SuccessorDiego Coletti
Previous postBishop of Carpi (1983-1989)
Ordination26 June 1955
Ordained byGiovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini
Consecration29 May 1983
Consecrated bySebastiano Baggio
Birth date15 July 1931
Birth placeBareggio, Province of Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Death date11 November 2008 (aged 77)
Death placeComo, 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.[1]

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.[2]

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."[3]

Episcopal lineage

Maggiolini's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:[4]

Notes

  1. ^ "EWTN.com - In Memoriam". www.ewtn.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05.
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  3. ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times
  4. ^ David M. Cheney, "Bishop Oscar Cantoni", Catholic Hierarchy, retrieved 2019-08-09