Arrigo Miglio (born 18 July 1942) is an

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prelate of the

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who was

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from 1999 to 2012 and Bishop of Iglesias from 1992 to 1999.

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made Miglio a

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on 27 August 2022.

Biography

Miglio was born in

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, and was

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on 23 September 1967. He was named Bishop of Iglesias on 25 March 1992, and was consecrated by

Luigi Bettazzi Luigi Bettazzi (26 November 1923 – 16 July 2023) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Ivrea from 1966 to 1999. One of the youngest and most junior participants in the Second Vatican Council, he was one of the origin ...

on the following 25 April. On 20 February 1999 Miglio was named

Bishop of Ivrea The Diocese of Ivrea () is a Latin Church, Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Piedmont. For a time the diocese included the territory which had once been the diocese of Aosta, suppressed in 1803 but restored in 1817. Up until 1517 Ivrea was ...

. He is president of the scientific committee and organizer of the ''Social Weeks of Catholic Italians'' as well as member of the Episcopal Commission of the

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for social issues, labour, justice and peace. On 25 February 2012 he was named

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, and received the metropolitan bishop's pallium on 29 June of the same year. Miglio has been president of the Sardinian Episcopal Conference since 3 September 2012. On 22 September 2013 he welcomed

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and accompanied him to all his public appointments. On 16 November 2019, Pope Francis accepted his resignation as archbishop and named

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to succeed him. On 27 August 2022, Pope Francis made him

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. Miglio is a former Grand Prior of the Sardinian Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

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