Salvatore Pappalardo (archbishop) explained

Type:archbishop
Consecration:5 March 1998
Successor:Francesco Lomanto
Alma Mater:Pontifical Lateran University
Nationality: Italy
Birth Place:Nicolosi
Birth Date:18 March 1945
Birth Name:Salvatore Pappalardo
Motto:Latin: Servus per Iesum
Coat Of Arms:Coat_of_arms_of_Salvatore_Pappalardo_(1945).svg
Rank:Archbishop
Consecrated By:Luigi Bommarito
Ordination:30 June 1968
Predecessor:Giuseppe Costanzo
Honorific Prefix:His Excellency
The Most Reverend
Enthroned:8 November 2008
Appointed:12 September 2008
See:Siracusa
Metropolis:Siracusa
Archdiocese:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Siracusa
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archbishop emeritus of Siracusa
Salvatore Pappalardo
Term End:20 October 2020

Salvatore Pappalardo (born 18 March 1945) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Siracusa from 2008 to 2020. Before that he was Bishop of Nicosia for ten years.

Biography

Salvatore Pappalardo was born in Nicolosi on 18 March 1945. He was ordained a priest on 30 June 1968. He studied at the seminary in Catania and then obtained a licentiate in theology and a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University.

In the Archdiocese of Catania he was a religion teacher in state schools, head of the diocesan Catechetical Office, vice rector of the seminary, and a parish priest. He became chancellor of the archdiocese and was Vicar General from 1989 to 1998.[1]

Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Nicosia on 5 February 1998. He received his episcopal consecration on 5 March 1998 in the Cathedral Basilica of Catania and was installed on 25 March 1998.[1]

On 12 September 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Archbishop of Siracusa[2] and he was installed there on 8 November.[1]

Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 24 July 2020.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arcidiocesi di Siracusa . Il Vescovo Salvatore . 24 July 2020 . it. https://web.archive.org/web/20200709094332/http://arcidiocesi.siracusa.it/il-vescovo-salvatore/ . 9 July 2020.
  2. 25 July 2020 . it . Holy See Press Office . 12 September 2008 . Rinunce e Nomine, 12.09.2008 .
  3. 25 July 2020 . Holy See Press Office . 24 July 2020 . Resignations and Appointments, 24.07.2020 .