Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti (11 February 1931 – 13 December 2009) was an Italian
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
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*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
archbishop.
Ordained on 30 August 1959, Nesti was appointed archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche
The Italian Archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche ( la, Archidioecesis Camerinensis-Sancti Severini in Piceno) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory, seated in Camerino, a city in the Province of Macerata, in the central Italian March ...
on 23 July 1993 and was ordained bishop on 30 August 1993. On 27 November 1996,
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
appointed Nesti Secretary of the
. Nesti retired from this final position on 10 July 2006.
References
Bishops in le Marche
Members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
1931 births
2009 deaths
21st-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
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