Pier Giacomo Grampa

Pier Giacomo Grampa ( born October 28, 1936 in Busto Arsizio, Varese province, Italy) is a retired Roman Catholic bishop of Lugano.

Life

Grampa first studied at the seminary of Venegono, then to that of Lugano and finally at the Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck. On December 6, 1959, he was awarded by Francesco Maggi, Titular Bishop of Terme, in the San -Nicolao Church of Lugano to the priesthood. 1965 to 1975 he was vice- rector of the diocesan high school and the Collegio Papio in Ascona, where he taught religion, philosophy and history, and in 1975 pastor of Moghegno and Aurigeno in the Maggia Valley.

In 1979 he became the successor of Amédée grave Rector of the Collegio Papio and also taught religion, ethics, and civics. On August 16, 1995, he was appointed chaplain to His Holiness ( Monsignor ) appointed. He was appointed archpriest of Ascona 2001.

Pope John Paul II appointed Pier Giacomo Grampa on 18 December 2003 as Bishop of Lugano. On 25 January 2004, he received episcopal consecration by the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, Pier Giacomo De Nicolò. Co-consecrators were Grampa's predecessor as Bishop of Lugano, Ernesto Togni, and Amédée grave, Bishop of Chur.

Grampa's motto is patientive in Adversis ( Latin for " In adversity patiently "). He is also Chancellor of the Theological Faculty of Lugano.

Pier Giacomo Grampa is a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and its Grand Prior of the Swiss Lieutenancy since 1998.

On November 4, 2013 Pope Francis took to the Pier Giacomo Grampa put forward reasons of age resignation.