Angelo Spina (born 13 November 1954) is an

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and the current

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since his appointment in 2017. Spina served prior to this as the Bishop of Sulmona-Valva since being raised to the

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in 2007. He has served in various capacities throughout his priesthood and episcopate: religious education teacher and instructor for new teachers as well as a parish priest and vicar.

Life

Angelo Spina was born on 13 November 1954 in Colle d'Anchise in the

Campobasso province Campobasso (, ; nap, label= Campobassan, Cambuàsce ) is a city and ''comune'' in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Molise and of the province of Campobasso. It is located in the high basin of the Biferno river, surrounded by Sanni ...

. Spina began his theological studies in 1974 Benevento after his initial ecclesial studies from 1968 in Campobasso under the supervision of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He first received his

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into the

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from Alberto Carinci in 1977 prior to Pietro Santoro ordaining him to the priesthood in Colle d'Anchise on 5 January 1980. From 1980 until 1999 he served as a parish priest for the Campochiaro and San Paolo Matese parishes while from 1980 to 1985 serving as a religious education teacher at a high school in

Boiano Bojano or Boiano is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Campobasso, Molise, south-central Italy. History Originally named Bovianum, it was settled by the 7th century BC. As the capital of the Pentri, a tribe of the Samnites, it played a maj ...

. Spina later oversaw the formation of religious education teachers for schools in

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from 1985 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000 he served as an episcopal vicar for the Great Jubilee of 2000 that

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had convoked. In 1999 he was named as the pastor for the Boiano Cathedral. In 2003 he was named as the episcopal vicar for diocesan missions and then from 2004 to 2007 for the Santuario dell'Addolorata. He received his

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in the Santuario dell'Addolorata in Castelpetroso on 9 June 2007 from Armando Dini with Antonio Nuzzi and Giuseppe Di Falco serving as the co-consecrators. Spina was then installed in his new see that 23 June. On 17 January 2013 he attended the "

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" visit to Pope Benedict XVI. On 14 July 2017 he was appointed as the newest

to succeed the retiring Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli. Spina was installed in his new archdiocese on 1 October.

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Catholic Hierarchy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spina, Angelo 1954 births 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests 21st-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops Bishops appointed by Pope Benedict XVI Living people People from the Province of Campobasso