Alfredo Bruniera

Alfredo Bruniera (born September 30, 1906 in San Pelagio , Province of Trieste , Italy , † March 26, 2000 ) was an Italian clergyman and curial archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Alfredo Bruniera received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Treviso on July 9, 1933 .

On December 12, 1954, Pope Pius XII appointed him . the Titular Archbishop of Claudiopolis in Honoriade and ordered him to apostolic delegate in the Republic of Congo . The secretary emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , Cardinal Celso Costantini , donated him episcopal ordination on January 2, 1955 ; Co- consecrators were the secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Curia Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi , and the Bishop of Treviso, Antonio Mantiero . On April 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII appointed him . to the Apostolic Nuncio in Ecuador . On October 23, 1965, Alfredo Bruniera became Apostolic Nuncio in Uruguay . Pope Paul VI appointed him on April 23, 1969 as Apostolic Nuncio in Lebanon and on July 7, 1969 also as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Kuwait . On March 4, 1975, Bruniera resigned as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Kuwait. Pope John Paul II appointed him on November 6, 1978 Vice-President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum” .

On December 10, 1981, Pope John Paul II accepted Alfredo Bruniera's resignation because of his age.

Bruniera attended the first, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council .

Web links

• Entry on Alfredo Bruniera on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Pietro Sigismondi	Apostolic Delegate in the Republic of the Congo 1954–1959	Vito Roberti
Opilio Rossi	Apostolic Nuncio in Ecuador 1959–1965	Giovanni Ferrofino
Giovanni Ferrofino	Apostolic Nuncio in Uruguay 1965–1969	Augustin-Joseph Sépinski OFM
Gaetano Alibrandi	Apostolic Nuncio in Lebanon 1969–1978	Carlo Furno
...	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Kuwait 1969–1975	Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp