Giuseppe Anfossi (born 7 March 1935) is the bishop emeritus of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Aosta french: Diocèse d'Aoste , image = Aosta Cattedrale.JPG , image_size = 255px , image_alt = Facade of Cathedral of Aosta , caption = Aosta Cathedral , country = Italy , metropolitan = , ...

from 1994 to 2011.

Biography

He was ordained priest on 1959. He was appointed bishop of

Aosta Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of ...

on 30 December 1994. He was consecrated on 22 January 1995 by cardinal

Giovanni Saldarini Giovanni Saldarini (11 December 1924 – 18 April 2011) was an Italian Cardinal and Archbishop of Turin. Early life Saldarini was born in Cantù in the Italian province of Como, in Lombardy. He was educated at St Peter Martyr Seminary in ...

, replacing the previous bishop Ovidio Lari. As bishop of Aosta he received in the diocese for the traditional summer holidays in Les Combes d'

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, Gran Paradiso National Park, the popes

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 ...

and

Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...

. On St Anselm's Day, 2006, he traveled to Canterbury Cathedral in England to dedicate the new altar in

St Anselm Anselm of Canterbury, OSB (; 1033/4–1109), also called ( it, Anselmo d'Aosta, link=no) after his birthplace and (french: Anselme du Bec, link=no) after his monastery, was an Italian Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the ...

's tomb at a ceremony attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the abbot of Bec.. He resigned on 9 November 2011.

References

External links

Profile of Mons. Anfossi on Cathopedia

Official page of diocese of Aosta
1935 births Living people Bishops of Aosta 20th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Religious leaders from Bolzano {{20C-Italy-RC-bishop-stub