Pasquale Cascio (born 29 November 1957) is an Italian ordinary of the

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. He currently serves as the Archbishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia.

Biography

Pasquale Cascio was born on 29 November 1957 in Castelcivita, a ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' in the

Province of Salerno The province of Salerno () is a province in the Campania region of Italy. It has 1,054,766 inhabitants as of 2025. Geography The largest towns in the province are: Salerno, the capital, which has a population of 131,950; Cava de' Tirreni, Bat ...

and the Italian region of

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. He entered the Pius IX Seminary in

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and then attended the Almo Collegio Capranica in

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. He subsequently studied philosophy and theology at the

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. He then received a Licentiate of Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Cascio was ordained a priest on 23 July 1983 in the Diocese of Teggiano-Policastro. From 1984 to 2012, he served as a priest in the parish of St. John the Baptist in the hamlet of Terranova in Sicignano degli Alburni and from 1988 to 2007, he taught at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in

Teggiano Teggiano (), formerly Diano, is a town and (municipality) in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy. It is situated on an isolated eminence above the upper part of the valley to which it gives the name of Vallo di Diano. Among the historic ...

. At various points, Cascio additionally served as

vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English p ...

for the Alburni area, professor of sacred scripture at the Theological Institute of Basilicata in Potenza, a teacher of sacred scripture at the John Paul II Metropolitan Seminary in Salerno and at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in Vallo della Lucania, a member of the diocesan presbyterial council and college of consultors, and the director of the diocesan technical office. Cascio was appointed the Archbishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia on 27 October 2012. On 5 January 2013, he was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe (

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) and co-

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s Antonio Maria De Luca (Bishop of Teggiano-Policastro) and Francesco Alfano ( Archbishop of Sorrento-Castellammarre di Stabia) in the Sanctuary of San Gerardo Maiella in Materdomini, a hamlet of Caposele in the

Province of Avellino The province of Avellino () is a province in the Campania Campania is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea ...

and region of

. He officially took possession of the archdiocese of 6 January.

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Archdiocese of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia website
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Biography

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