Armando Brambilla

Armando Brambilla ( born January 21, 1942 in Cologno Monzese, Province of Milan, Italy, † December 25, 2011 in San Maurizio al Lambro, Milan province ), was suffragan bishop in the diocese of Rome.

Life

Armando Brambilla ar initially worked as an accountant for the city Cologno Monzese. On January 21, 1972, he entered the seminary Comunità del Paradiso Missionaria. He studied philosophy and theology at the diocesan seminary of Bergamo, and received on 11 June 1977, the ordination. He initially worked in the parish of St. Giustino in Alessandrina as well as a religion teacher at the Fedro. In 1986 he became pastor of St. Giustino. He was also chaplain of the Istituto secolare in Rome. At the Diocesan Synod in Rome, he was the representative of his diocese. For years he was deputy prefects of the sixteenth Prefecture. After studying pastoral theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, he was appointed chaplain of His Holiness in 1993.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 25 March 1994 as Titular Bishop of Iomnium and appointed him auxiliary bishop in Rome with the specific task of chaplaincy and the City Mission of the Italian capital. The episcopal ordination in the Lateran He received his Cardinal Vicar Camillo Ruini on 7 May of that same year in the Lateran Basilica; Co-consecrators were Giuseppe Mani, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome, and Roberto Amadei, Bishop of Bergamo.

From 24 October 1995 to June 8, 2010 Armando Brambilla was secretary of the Bishops' Conference of the Church Lazio region. Since 1997 he was a diocesan officer for the Roman " Confraternite novels ," which he also represented in the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI since 1999; He was the chaplain on April 29, 2009. In the Italian Bishops' Conference CEI, he was also a member of the Commission for the Pastoral Ministry of charity and health. On 16 November 2009 he became a member of the Centro per la Cooperazione Missionaria tra le Chiese. At the time of his death Brambilla was the longest-serving of the five auxiliary bishops of the Diocese of Rome.