Adriano Ciocca Vasino

Most Reverend

Adriano Ciocca Vasino
Prelate of São Félix do Araguaia
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
SeeTerritorial Prelature of São Félix
PredecessorLeonardo Ulrich Steiner
SuccessorLucio Nicoletto
Orders
Ordination8 September 1974
Consecration2 May 1999
by Czeslaw Stanula
Personal details
Born (1949-07-08) 8 July 1949

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

Biography

Adriano Ciocca Vasino was born on 8 July 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 8 September 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 3 March 1999, and was consecrated on 2 May 1999.

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

References

  1. ^ "Incontro con il vescovo dom Ciocca Vasino, da 33 anni in Brasile". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  2. ^ Dom Adriano Ciocca vescovo di São Félix do Araguaia
  3. ^ Dom Adriano Ciocca toma posse na Prelazia de São Félix do Araguaia Archived 11 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine