Claudio Dalla Zuanna (born 7 November 1958) is an Argentine-born Italian Catholic archbishop. In 2012 he was appointed Archbishop of Beira, in Mozambique.
Dalla Zuanna was born in
Buenos Aires
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,
Argentina
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on 7 November 1958 to Italian parents. When he was a child his family moved back to their town of origin ( San Nazario, in the
province of Vicenza
The Province of Vicenza ( it, Provincia di Vicenza) is a province in the Veneto region in northern Italy. Its capital city is Vicenza.
The province has an area of 2,722.53 km², and a total population of 865,082 (as of 2017). There are 1 ...
and
Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua ( it, Diocesi di Padova; la, Dioecesis Patavina) is an episcopal see of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century.''scuole medie'' he attended the educatational institutions of the
Priests of the Sacred Heart
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and became a member of their congregation.
Ordained as a priest in 1984, he travelled to
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
the next year as a missionary and remained there until 2003. While there he held several important offices in the church; from 2009 he was
vicar general
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.
On 7 October 2012 he returned to Mozambique after being named Archbishop of Beira. His consecration took place in the basketball stadium of the railway club of Beira and was carried out by the president of the episcopal conference of Mozambique, Lúcio Andrice Muandula. On 29 June 2013,
Pope Francis
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granted him the
pallium
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during a ceremony in
St Peter's Basilica
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on the occasion of the festival of
St Peter
) (Simeon, Simon)
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire
, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
, parents = John (or Jonah; Jona)
, occupation ...
and
Paul
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*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...