Paolo Mietto

Paolo Mietto CSI (born May 26, 1934 in Padua ; † May 25, 2020 in Quito , Ecuador ) was an Italian Roman Catholic religious and superior general of the Josephines of St. Leonardo Murialdo and Vicar Apostolic of Napo (Ecuador).

Life

Paolo Mietto joined the Order of the Josephines of St. Leonardo Murialdo and made his profession on December 8, 1952 . He received in the March 30, 1963 Viterbo the priesthood . From 1982 to 1994 Paolo Mietto was Superior General of the Josephines of St. Leonardo Murialdo. During the seminary and early years of religious life he had lived in Padua, Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza), Ponte di Piave (Treviso), Rome, Viterbo and Brussels.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on July 1, 1994 as Apostolic Coadjutor Vicar of Napo and Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena . The prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples , Cardinal Jozef Tomko , ordained him on 22 October of that year in the church of Santa Maria Immacolata and San Giovanni Berchmans in Rome for Bishops ; Co- consecrators were Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa , Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life , and Julio Parise Loro CSI, Vicar Apostolic of Napo.

After Julio Parise Loro's CSI retired , he succeeded him on August 2, 1996 as Vicar Apostolic of Napo. On June 11, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related resignation.

From 2012 to 2014 Mietto was Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Miguel de Sucombíos .

Mietto was one of the great supporters of the founding of the Red Eclesial Panamazónica (Repam).

Web links

• Entry on Paolo Mietto on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Entry on Paolo Mietto CSI on gcatholic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} “Mons. Paolo Mietto dio la vida por el Evangelio " on redamazonica.org from May 25, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020 (Spanish)

predecessor	Office	successor
Julio Parise Loro CSI	Vicar Apostolic of Napo 1996-2010	Celmo Lazzari CSI