Alfredo Bastianelli | |
Order: | Ambassador of Italy in Angola |
Termstart: | January 22, 2001 |
Termend: | June 15, 2005 |
Predecessor: | Paolo Sannella |
Successor: | Torquato Cardelli |
Order2: | Ambassador of Italy in Cyprus |
Termstart2: | December 1, 2009 |
Termend2: | December 2012 |
Predecessor2: | Luigi Napolitano |
Successor2: | Guido Cerboni |
Order3: | Ambassador of Italy in Belgium |
Termstart3: | 2013 |
Termend3: | 2015 |
Predecessor3: | Roberto Bettarini |
Successor3: | Vincenzo Grassi |
Order4: | Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre |
Predecessor4: | Ivan Rebernik |
Termstart4: | 2016 |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1951 |
Birth Place: | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Alma Mater: | Sapienza University of Rome |
Children: | 3 |
Alfredo Bastianelli (born 26 January 1951) is an Italian diplomat, Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and Papal Gentleman. He is married and has three children.
Bastianelli holds a law degree from Sapienza University of Rome. Besides his native Italian, Bastianelli speaks English, French and Portuguese.[1]
He held various posts in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic missions of Italy in Brazil, Canada, Mozambique, Indonesia, European Union.
From 2001 to 2005 he served as an Ambassador to Angola.[2] [3] From 2009 to 2012 he was an ambassador to Cyprus.[4]
From 2013 to 2015 he was an ambassador to Belgium.[5] [6] At the same time, in 2014, for a few months he was in charge of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Bruxelles, pending the appointment of a new director.[7]
In 2016 he was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien, the Order's Grand Master.