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
Successor	Lucio Nicoletto
Orders
Ordination	September 8, 1974
Consecration	May 2, 1999 by Czeslaw Stanula
Personal details
Born	(1949-07-08) July 8, 1949 (age 75) Borgosesia, Italy

Adriano Ciocca Vasino (born July 8, 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 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". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
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

External links

• Official page of Prelature of São Félix