Alessandro Maggiolini (15 July 1931 – 11 November 2008) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Como, Italy.[1]

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
Died11 November 2008(2008-11-11) (aged 77)

Life

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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

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Notes

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  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