Nino Staffieri (6 September 1931 – 31 July 2018)E' morto il vescovo emerito Bassano Staffieri
was an Italian

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of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato The Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato ( la, Dioecesis Spediensis-Sarzanensis-Brugnatensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Liguria, northern Italy, created in 1929. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Genoa. The historic ...

. He was ordained a

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on 9 June 1955. He was appointed bishop of

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on 11 July 1989, receiving his episcopal consecration on 9 September 1989 from

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Ugo Poletti Ugo Poletti (19 April 1914 – 25 February 1997) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Vicar General of Rome from 1973 to 1991, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973. Biography Born in Omegna, Poletti studied ...

. He was appointed bishop of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato on 10 July 1999. Staffieri retired as bishop on 6 December 2007, and at the time of his death was vice-president of ''Episcopal Conference of

Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...

''.

References

External links

Profile of Mons. Staffieri
''www.catholic-hierarchy.org''
Official page of diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato
1931 births 2018 deaths People from Casalpusterlengo Bishops in Emilia-Romagna Bishops in Liguria 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops {{20C-Italy-RC-bishop-stub