Resignation and appointment of bishop of Chiavari, Italy
Appointment of consulters of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated and the Societies of Apostolic Life
Resignation and appointment of bishop of Chiavari, Italy
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Chiavari, Italy, presented by Bishop Alberto Tanasini.
The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of Chiavari, Italy, the Reverend Giampio Luigi Devasini, until now vicar general of the diocese of Casale Monferrato.
Curriculum vitae
Msgr. Giampio Luigi Devasini was born on 4 September 1962 in Alessandria, in the province and diocese of the same name. After graduating in law from the University of Genoa, he entered the Theological Seminary of Alessandria and was ordained a priest on 8 June 2002 for the diocese of Casale Monferrato. In 2010, at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy (Milan section) he was awarded a licentiate in moral theology.
He has held the following offices: from 2002 to 2007, vice-rector of the Episcopal Seminary; from 2002 to 2015, parish administrator of Alfiano Natta and Cardona; from 2003 to 2019, episcopal delegate for consecrated life; in 2005, member of the diocesan episcopal council, the presbyteral council, the college of consultors and the diocesan council for economic affairs; in 2007, vice-rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Crea; from 2007 to 2015, parish administrator of Sanico; from 2009 to 2012, episcopal vicar for pastoral care; from 2011 to 2015, moderator of the Santa Gianna Beretta Molla pastoral unit; from 2011 to 2015, pro-vicar general; since 2015, vicar general and parish priest of Pontestura and Quarti; from 2015 to 2017, parish priest of Solonghello; and since 2016, episcopal delegate for relations with the superintendencies.
Since 2014, he has been canon of the Cathedral; since 2019, president and legal representative of the Opera Diocesana Assistenza Foundation, the Opera Apostolato Mariano, the Villa Serena Foundation, the Shrine of the Beata Virgine Madonna del Pozzo, the Opera Diocesana di Assistenza Consortium and since 2020, rector of the Church of San Antonio Abate in Casale Monferrato.
Appointment of consulters of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated and the Societies of Apostolic Life
The Holy Father has appointed as consultors of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life: the Reverend Msgr. Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, prelate auditor; the Reverend Msgr. Francesco Zenna, general assistant of the Secular Institute of Missionary Priests of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ; the Reverend Fathers: Giordano Rota, O.S.B., abbot of the Monastery of San Giacomo di Pontida; Dysmas de Lassus, minister general of the Order of Carthusians; Ricardo Daniel Medina, O.A.R., major superior of the Recollect Augustinians in Argentina; the Reverend Fathers: Giuseppe Buffon, O.F.M., dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome; Denis Chardonnens, O.C.D., dean of the Pontifical Theological Faculty and of the Pontifical Institute of Spirituality Teresianum in Rome; Xabier Larrañaga Oyarzabal, C.M.F., dean of the Institute of Theology of Consecrated Life Claretianum in Rome; Luigi Sabbarese, C.S., Referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura; the Reverends: David Ricardo Christian Albornoz Pavisic, S.D.B., judge of the National Ecclesiastical Appeals Court of Santiago de Chile; Mario Oscar Llanos, S.D.B., dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Salesian University of Rome; the Reverend Mothers: Márian Ambrosio, S.D.V., former superior general of the Sisters of Divine Providence, and Elsa Campa Fernández, O.C.D., president of the Federación San José Castilla – Burgos; the Reverend Sisters: Giuseppina Del Core, F.M.A., director of the Institute of Psychological Research in the Field of Education of the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium in Rome; Brigid Lawlor, R.G.S., former superior general of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd; Sidonie Oyembo, C.I.C., chair of the Committee for Consecrated Life of the Episcopal Conference of Gabon; Simona Paolini, F.M.G.B., deputy dean of the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome; María José Tuñón Calvo, A.C.I., director of the Episcopal Commission for Consecrated Life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference; Maria Inês Vieira Ribeiro, M.A.D., president of the Conference of Religious Sisters of Brazil; the distinguished Professor Andrea Perrone, lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
