Pier Luigi Mazzoni

Pier Luigi Mazzoni ( born August 3, 1932 in Dovadola, Province of Forlì -Cesena, Italy, † July 12, 2012 in Gaeta, Latina ) was Archbishop of Gaeta.

Pier Luigi Mazzoni first studied at the seminary of Canon Law at the Pontifical Modigliana and Lombard Seminary in Rome. After a degree in philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University, he was at the Pontifical Gregorian University Dr. theol. doctorate. He received in Rome on 18 February 1958, the ordination. He worked for the Congregation for Bishops, where he was Head of Department and Deputy Secretary.

In 1991 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Ascoli Piceno. The episcopal ordination on 18 May 1991 in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore gave him Cardinal Bernardin Gantin; Co-consecrators were the Apostolic Nuncio in Italy, Luigi Poggi, and his predecessor as Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, Marcello Morgante. In 1997 he was named Archbishop of Gaeta.

On 20 September 2007, Pope Benedict XVI. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to.