Antonio Guido Filipazzi (born 8 October 1963) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1992.
Biography
He was born in Melzo, in the Province of Milan, on 8 October 1963 and grew up in Gessate.[1] After completing his classical studies, he studied at the Genoa Section of Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, obtaining a bachelor's degree in theology in 1987.[citation needed] On 10 October 1987 he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Genoa by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri.[1] On 1 September 1989, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo.[2]
He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 1992. His early assignments were in the nunciatures in Sri Lanka (1992 to 1995), Austria (1995 to 1998), and Germany (1998 to 2003), and then in Rome in the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State from 2003 to 2011.[1]
He also taught canon law in the Seminary Redemptoris Mater of Berlin from 2002 to 2003 and was a member of the delegation of the Holy See to the Italian-Vatican Joint Commission, established to deepen the concordat profiles related to the free fulfillment of the ministry of bishops and to the related criminal procedural questions, from 2004 to 2011.[citation needed]