Vatican City, 16 November 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed:
- Msgr. Antonio Napolioni as bishop of
Cremona (area 1,917, population 368,797, Catholics 331,250, priests
346, permanent deacons 14, religious 435), Italy. The bishop-elect
was born in Camerino, Italy in 1957 and was ordained a priest in
1983. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Salesian
University, Rome. He has served in a number of pastoral and academic
roles including vice-rector and rector of the regional seminary of
the Marches, director of the regional centre for vocations, lecturer
in pastoral theology and catechetics in the Istituto Marchigiano of
Ancona, and the Pontifical Institute of Pastoral Ministry of the
Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. He is currently pastor of the
San Severino Vescovo parish. In 2005 he was named chaplain of His
Holiness. He succeeds Bishop Dante Lanfranconi, whose resignation
from the pastoral care of the same diocese upon reaching the age
limit was accepted by the Holy Father.
- Msgr. Corrado Sanguinetti as bishop
of Pavia (area 782, population 185,161, Catholics 173,000, priests
134, permanent deacons 5, religious 158), Italy. The bishop-elect was
born in Milan, Italy in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1988. He holds
a licentiate in biblical sciences from the Pontifical Biblical
Institute of Rome and a degree in theology from the Pontifical
University of the Sacred Heart, Rome. He has served in a number of
roles in the diocese of Chiavari, including parish priest, president
of the diocesan board for youth pastoral ministry, member of the
diocesan centre for vocations, and member of the diocesan pastoral
council. He is currently pastor of the parishes of San Colombano and
San Martino del Monte, provost of the Cathedral of Nostra Signora
dell'Orto, pro-vicar general, and member of the diocesan prebyteral
council, the college of consultors and the diocesan pastoral council.
He is lecturer in sacred scripture at the theological faculty of
Northern Italy in Genoa, and was named chaplain of His Holiness in
2011. He succeeds Bishop Giovanni Giudici, whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the same diocese upon reaching the age limit was
accepted by the Holy Father.
- Bishop Enrique Sanchez Martinez,
auxiliary of Durango, Mexico, as bishop of Nuevo Laredo (area 19,378,
population 1,051,000, Catholics 884,000, priests 71, permanent
deacons 8, religious 113), Mexico.
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