Giuseppe Anfossi

Giuseppe Anfossi
Emerit Bishop of Diocese of Aosta
Church Roman Catholic Church
See Diocese of Aosta
In office 1994 - 2011
Predecessor Ovidio Lari
Successor Franco Lovignana
Orders
Ordination June 28, 1959
Consecration January 22, 1995
by Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini
Personal details
Born (1935-03-07)March 7, 1935
Marebbe
Styles of
Giuseppe Anfossi
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous style none

Giuseppe Anfossi (born March 7, 1935) is the emerit bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aosta.

Biography

He was ordained priest on 1959. He was appointed bishop of Aosta on December 30, 1994. He was consecrated on January 22, 1995, by cardinal Giovanni Saldarini, replacing the previous bishop Ovidio Lari.

As bishop of Aosta he received in the diocese for the traditional summer holidays in Les Combes d'Introd, Gran Paradiso National Park, the popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. On St Anselm's Day, 2006, he traveled to Canterbury Cathedral in England to dedicate the new altar in St Anselm's tomb at a ceremony attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the abbot of Bec.[1]

He resigned on November 9, 2011.

References

  1. "St Anselm's Chapel Altar", Waymarking, Seattle: Groundspeak, 28 April 2012, retrieved 30 June 2015.

External links

Preceded by
Ovidio Lari
Bishop of Aosta
1994-2011 -
Succeeded by
Franco Lovignana


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