Franco Lovignana

Franco Lovignana
Bishop of Diocese of Aosta
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Church Roman Catholic Church
See Diocese of Aosta
In office 2011 – present
Predecessor Giuseppe Anfossi
Orders
Ordination June 21, 1980
by Bishop Ovidio Lari
Consecration December 18, 2011
by Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia
Personal details
Born (1957-11-22)November 22, 1957
Aosta
Nationality Italy
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Styles of
Franco Lovignana
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous style none

Franco Lovignana (born November 22, 1957) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aosta. He is the first native-bishop of Aosta since 1968.[1]

Biography

He entered the seminary in Aosta in 1971 and was ordained priest on 1981. In 1983 he obtained he graduated in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.

From October 1984 to 2005 was professor of theology at the seminary of Aosta. Since October 1995, episcopal vicar for the pastoral and canonic of collegiate of Saints Peter and Ursus of Aosta and, since April 29, 2003, prior of the same church. Since 2004 vicar general of the diocese of Aosta.

References

  1. "Mons. Franco Lovignana è Vescovo di Aosta". http://www.aostasera.it/. Retrieved February 13, 2015. External link in |website= (help)

Resources

Preceded by
Giuseppe Anfossi
Bishop of Aosta
1994–2011 –
Succeeded by


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