Adelio Dell'Oro is the Italian-born
Catholic Bishop of
Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
Biography
Early life and education
Born on 31 July 1948 in Milan, Italy. His first cousin is
Italo Dell'Oro, who is now an Auxilary Bishop in the
Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
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History
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. In 1959 he entered the minor seminary in Milan. In 1967 he went to complete his classical studies at the Northern Italian theological faculties.
Ministry
He was ordained a priest for the
Archdiocese of Milan by Cardinal
Giovanni Colombo
Giovanni Colombo (6 December 1902 – 20 May 1992) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1963 to 1979 and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1965.
Biography Early life and priesthood
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on 28 June 1972. He served as the
Vicar of St Andrea's Parish in Milan until 1983. He then served as the Vicar of St Maria Assunta parish in
Buccinasco
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until 1997. Meanwhile, Dell'Oro was a teacher of the religion in secondary schools and technical institutes from 1974 to 1997.
Initial Service in Kazakhstan
In 1997, he was transferred to
Kazakhstan where he became the director of the Kazakhstani branch of
Caritas from 1997 to 2007. He also served as a priest at Vishniovka-Ashaly, collaborator of the
apostolic nunciature and teacher of theology at the major seminary of Karaganda from 2007 to 2009. He became the spiritual director of the inter-diocesan Mary the Mother of the Church
seminary in
Karaganda.
Return to Italy
In 2009, he returned to Italy where he served the Parish of San Zeno in Cambiago. He was appointed vice-rector of the college at Guastalla Monza and Diocesan Assistant of Communion and Liberation from 2010 to 2012.
Appointment as Bishop and Return to Kazakhstan
On the
Solemnity of
St Ambrose, 7 December 2012,
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Dell'Oro
Apostolic Administrator of
Atyrau
Atyrau ( kk, Атырау, ', ; russian: Атырау, ), known until 1991 as Guryev (russian: Гурьев, ), is a city in Kazakhstan and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Cas ...
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Kazakhstan (upon the resignation of Bishop
Janusz Wiesław Kaleta) and
Titular Bishop of
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He received his episcopal ordination on 2 March 2013 in the cathedral of Milan by the hands of Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan with Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi
Dionigi Tettamanzi (14 March 1934 – 5 August 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was named a cardinal in 1998. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 1995 to 2004 and Archbishop of Milan from 2004 to 2011.
Early years
Tett ...
, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan, and Archbishop Tomasz Peta
Tomasz Bernard Peta (russian: Томаш Бернард Пэта; born on 20 August 1951 in Inowrocław, Poland) is the current Catholic Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Mary in the city of Astana, and the President of the Bisho ...
of Astana as co-consecrators. He arrived in Atyrau on 21 April.
On 31 January 2015, Dell'Oro was appointed Bishop of Karaganda by Pope Francis
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Languages Spoken
In addition to his native Italian Dell'Oro speaks Russian and English. He also has a working knowledge of Latin and Kazakh
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* Someone or something related to Kazakhstan
*Kazakhs, an ethnic group
*Kazakh language
*The Kazakh Khanate
* Kazakh cuisine
* Qazakh Rayon, Azerbaijan
*Qazax, Azerbaijan
*Kazakh Uyezd, administrative dis ...
.
References
External links
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1948 births
Kazakhstani Roman Catholic bishops
Catholic Church in Kazakhstan
21st-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Living people