Eugenio Dal Corso (born 16 May 1939) is an

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prelate of the

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who led two dioceses in Angola, as Coadjutor and Bishop of Saurimo from 1996 to 2008 and as Bishop of Benguela from 2008 to 2018. He is a professed member of the

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and worked as a missionary in Argentina and Angola from 1975 to 1996. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of

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on 5 October 2019.

Life

Eugenio Dal Corso was born in Lugo di Valpantena di Grezzana near

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on 16 May 1939 as the second of six children to Rodolfo Dal Corso and Teresa Bellorio; he was given the name "Eugenio" to honor

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who was elected pope two months earlier. From the age of ten he attended the Don Calabria Institute and there decided to become a missionary. Dal Corso made his

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in the Poor Servants of Divine Providence

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in 1956 and was

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in the Casa di Nazareth on 7 July 1963. He then completed his studies in dogmatics while he also doing pastoral work in the Madonna di Campagna

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as well as in

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. He also taught theology from 1967 to 1968. Dal Corso began his career as a missionary in the city of Laferrere in

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in January 1975, where he helped educate new priests. After just over a decade there, he was assigned to the missions in

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, in March 1986. One of his projects there was the construction of a seminary in Uíje In 1991 he was appointed the Provincial Superior of his order in Angola.

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appointed Dal Corso the Coadjutor Bishop of Saurimo on 15 December 1995. He received his

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on 3 March 1996 from Archbishop Félix del Blanco Prieto, with Bishops Andrea Veggio and Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa serving as the principal

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. He became Bishop of Saurimo when his predecessor retired on 15 January 1997. On 18 February 2008,

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named him Bishop of Benguela. Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 26 March 2018 at the age of 78.

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announced on 1 September 2019 that he would make Dal Corso a

. On 5 October 2019, Pope Francis made him

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