Franco Lovignana

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Franco Lovignana
Bishop of Diocese of Aosta
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Church Roman Catholic Church
See Diocese of Aosta
In office2011 – present
Predecessor Giuseppe Anfossi
Orders
Ordination21 June 1980
by Bishop Ovidio Lari
Consecration18 December 2011
by  Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia
Personal details
Born(1957-11-22)22 November 1957
Aosta
NationalityItaly
Coat of arms Coat of arms of Franco Lovignana.svg
Styles of
Franco Lovignana
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Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous stylenone

Franco Lovignana (born 22 November 1957) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aosta. He is the first native-bishop of Aosta since 1968. [1]

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Biography

He entered the seminary in Aosta in 1971 and was ordained priest in 1981. In 1983 he obtained a degree in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.

From October 1984 to 2005, he was a professor of theology at the seminary of Aosta. Since October 1995, he was the episcopal vicar for the pastoral and canonic of collegiate of Saints Peter and Ursus of Aosta since 29 April 2003, prior of the same church. Since 2004 he was appointed vicar general of the diocese of Aosta.

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References

  1. "Mons. Franco Lovignana è Vescovo di Aosta". aostasera.it/. Retrieved February 13, 2015.

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Preceded by
Giuseppe Anfossi
Bishop of Aosta
1994–2011 –
Succeeded by