Alessandro Maggiolini

Alessandro Maggiolini (15 July 1931 – 11 November 2008) was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Como, Italy.^[1]

Life

Born in Bareggio, Italy, Maggiolini was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan on 26 July 1955. On 7 April 1983 Pope John Paul II appointed Maggiolini bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Carpi, Italy, and he was ordained a bishop on 29 May 1983. On 31 January 1989 Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Maggiolini Bishop of the Como Diocese. Bishop Maggiolini retired on 2 December 2006.^[2]

In 2000, on rumors about the retirement of Pope John Paul II, Bishop Maggiolini said: "The church is not Fiat or General Motors. Its criteria cannot be efficiency. Even an elderly father can be the conscience of the church and continue to govern it."^[3]

Episcopal lineage

Maggiolini's episcopal lineage, or apostolic succession was:^[4]

Cardinal Scipione Rebiba
Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santorio
Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale
Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi
Cardinal Luigi Caetani
Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna
Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
Pope Benedict XIII
Pope Benedict XIV
Cardinal Enrico Enríquez
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz
Cardinal Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola
Cardinal Giuseppe Doria Pamphili
Pope Pius VIII
Pope Pius IX
Cardinal Alessandro Franchi
Cardinal Giovanni Simeoni
Cardinal Antonio Agliardi
Cardinal Basilio Pompili
Cardinal Adeodato Giovanni Piazza
Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio
Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini

Notes

^ "EWTN.com - In Memoriam". www.ewtn.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05.
^ "Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times.
^ David M. Cheney, "Bishop Oscar Cantoni", Catholic Hierarchy, retrieved 2019-08-09