Giovanni Nerbini (born 2 June 1954) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who became Bishop of Prato in 2019.
Giovanni Nerbini (born 2 June 1954) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who became Bishop of Prato in 2019.
Giovanni Nerbini was born on 2 June 1954 in Figline Valdarno, Province of Florence. He earned a degree in school supervision and was an elementary schoolteacher from 1973 to 1989. [1] He then entered the seminary of the Diocese of Fiesole and studied philosophy and theology at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Fiesole by Bishop Luciano Giovannetti on 22 April 1995 and in that diocese filled a variety of pastoral and administrative assignments. Appointed by Bishop Mario Meini, he was vicar general of the diocese from 2015 to 2018. [2]
On 15 May 2019, Pope Francis named him Bishop of Prato. [2] He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence, on 30 June [1] and was installed in Prato on 7 September.
In December 2019, Nerbini notified civil authorities of charges of sexual abuse of two brothers—one less than 14 years old [3] —on the part nine priests and brothers of the Disciples of the Annunciation, [4] an order founded in Prato in 2010 and suppressed by the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on 24 December 2019. [5] His predecessor, Bishop Franco Agostinelli, had only notified Vatican authorities of the allegations and Italian law does not require bishops to notify the police. [4] He is the first Italian bishop to take such an action. [6]
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