Adriano Ciocca Vasino Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:Most Reverend
Adriano Ciocca Vasino
Prelate of São Félix do Araguaia
Church:Roman Catholic Church
See:Territorial Prelature of São Félix
Predecessor:Leonardo Ulrich Steiner
Successor:Lucio Nicoletto
Ordination:September 8, 1974
Consecration:May 2, 1999
Birth Date:July 8, 1949
Birth Place:Borgosesia, Italy

Adriano Ciocca Vasino (born July 8, 1949) is an Italian bishop in the Catholic Church. On 21 March 2012 he became Prelate of São Félix do Araguaia, Brazil.

Biography

Adriano Ciocca Vasino was born on July 8, 1949, in Borgosesia, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara based in Novara, Italy.

He studied Philosophy at the Philosophical and Theological Seminary San Gaudenzio in Novara, and Theology at the Theological Seminary San Zeno, in Verona, Italy. Ordained as a priest on September 8, 1974, he was then incardinated in the Diocese of Novara.

Career

After some years of pastoral practice in his Diocese, he flew as a Fidei donum priest in Brazil,[1] and he was appointed to be the Bishop of Floresta by Pope John Paul II on March 3, 1999, and was consecrated on May 2, 1999.

Until 2001 he was the referent for the CNBB in the Basic ecclesial communities. On March 21, 2012,[2] and he entered on May 13, 2012.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Incontro con il vescovo dom Ciocca Vasino, da 33 anni in Brasile . 2012-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210621/http://www.corrieredinovara.com/it/web/incontro-con-il-vescovo-dom-ciocca-vasino-da-33-anni-in-brasile-11748/sez/borgomanero-cusio-e-bassa-sesia . 2015-09-23 . dead .
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307135522/http://www.novaramissio.it/missionari/s%c3%a3ofelix.html Dom Adriano Ciocca vescovo di São Félix do Araguaia
  3. http://www.cnbb.org.br/site/regionais/oeste-2/9305-dom-adriano-ciocca-toma-posse-na-prelazia-de-sao-felix-do-araguaia Dom Adriano Ciocca toma posse na Prelazia de São Félix do Araguaia