Aldo Mongiano, IMC (1 November 1919 – 15 April 2020) was an Italian-born Brazil-based bishop of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Mongiano was born in
Pontestura, Italy, and was ordained a priest on 3 June 1943, from the religious order of the
Consolata Missionaries
The Institute of Consolata Missionaries ( la, Institutum Missionum a Consolata), commonly called the Consolata Missionaries is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men. Its members add the nominal I.M.C. after their n ...
. Mongiano was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Roraima as well as Titular bishop of Nasai on 14 May 1975, and consecrated on 5 October 1975. He resigned as Titular bishop of Nasai and was appointed bishop of
Roraima
Roraima (, ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Located in the country's North Region, it is the northernmost and most geographically and logistically isolated state in Brazil. It is bordered by the state of Pará to the southeast, Amazonas ...
on 4 December 1979. Mongiano retired from the Roraima Diocese on 26 June 1996. Mongiano died on 15 April 2020 at the age of 100 from complications from a broken femur.
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1919 births
2020 deaths
Italian Roman Catholic bishops in South America
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20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil
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Roman Catholic missionaries in Brazil
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People from the Province of Alessandria
Roman Catholic bishops of Roraima
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