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 .
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predecessor | Office | successor |
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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 |
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Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Kuwait 1969–1975 |
Jean-Édouard-Lucien Rupp |
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SURNAME | Bruniera, Alfredo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian clergyman, Curia Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Pelagio , Trieste Province , Italy |
DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2000 |