Domenico Sorrentino
La Sapienza University | |
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| Motto | Abba Pater |
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Reference style The Most Reverend | | |
| Spoken style | His Excellency | |
| Religious style | Monsignor | |
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Domenico Sorrentino (born 16 May 1948) is an Italian Catholic prelate and the current Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino since his appointment in 2005.
Biography
He was born at
La Sapienza. He followed for a number of years the normal course of appointments in his home diocese as curate and then parish priest, but after a relatively short time was appointed to diocesan responsibilities for catechetics. He was also involved in the establishment of a library centred on the figure of the church father, Paulinus of Nola
. Sorrentino also became a teacher in the Institute of Religious Science at Nola and in the theological faculty at Naples.
In 1992 he obtained a position in the
John Paul II
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He was appointed on 17 February 2001 to the rank of archbishop and the post of
Prelate of Pompeii, in effect a small diocese centred on a large and popular shrine of the Virgin in the modern township of Pompei
, adjacent to the ruins of the Roman town buried in ancient times by volcanic eruption. Here Sorrentino set about plans for the rearrangement of the area surrounding the shrine, the provision of road access, and the like.
Sorrentino was appointed to the post of Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, on 2 August 2003. His most recent came on 19 November 2005, when he was appointed
Bishop of Assisi, keeping the personal title of archbishop.[1]
On November 28, 2020, Mgr Sorrentino and Mgr Giovanni Mosciatti, bishop of Imola, were the co-consecrators of bishop Mauro Gambetti who previously had been appointed cardinal by Pope Francis.[2]
References
- ^ "Annuario Pontificio 2009", p. 63
- ^ "Gambetti domenica verrà nominato vescovo, il 28 creato Cardinale" (in Italian). 18 November 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
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