Franco Lovignana [SEP] position held
Franco Lovignana
Franco Lovignana (born November 22, 1957) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aosta. He is the first native-bishop of Aosta since 1968.
Biography.
He entered the seminary in Aosta in 1971 and was ordained priest on 1981. In 1983 he obtained he graduated in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.
From October 1984 to 2005 was professor of theology at the seminary of Aosta. Since October 1995, episcopal vicar for the pastoral and canonic of
Giuseppe Anfossi]] (30 Dec 1994 – 9 Nov 2011 Retired)
- [[Franco Lovignana]] (9 Nov 2011 – )
Territory and parishes.
The diocese, which covers an area of 3,262 km² and has a population of 129,288, is divided into 93 parishes. All are in the (civil) region of [[Aosta Valley]]. A list of parishes by [[comune|commune]] follows; locations (villages or neighbourhoods) "within" a commune are shown in