Adriano Ciocca Vasino

Most Reverend
Adriano Ciocca Vasino
Prelate of São Félix do Araguaia
Church Roman Catholic Church
See Territorial Prelature of São Félix
Predecessor Leonardo Ulrich Steiner
Orders
Ordination September 8, 1974
Consecration May 2, 1999
by Czeslaw Stanula
Personal details
Born (1949-07-08) July 8, 1949
Borgosesia, Italy

Adriano Ciocca Vasino (July 8, 1949) is an Italian bishop in the Catholic Church. On 21 March 2012 he became the first Prelate of São Félix do Araguaia, Brazil.

Biography

Adriano Ciocca Vasino was born on July 8, 1949 in Borgosesia, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara based in Novara, Italy.

He studied Philosophy at the Philosophical and Theological Seminary San Gaudenzio in Novara, and Theology at the Theological Seminary San Zeno, in Verona, Italy. Ordained as a priest on September 8, 1974, he was then incardinated in the Diocese of Novara.

Career

After some years of pastoral practice in his Diocese, he flew as a Fidei donum priest in Brazil,[1] and he was appointed to be the Bishop of Floresta by Pope John Paul II on March 3, 1999, and was consecrated on May 2, 1999.

Until 2001 he was the referent for the CNBB in the Basic ecclesial communities. On March 21, 2012,[2] and he entered on May 13, 2012.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Incontro con il vescovo dom Ciocca Vasino, da 33 anni in Brasile
  2. ↑ Dom Adriano Ciocca vescovo di São Félix do Araguaia
  3. ↑ Dom Adriano Ciocca toma posse na Prelazia de São Félix do Araguaia Archived March 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.


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