Spoken style Your Excellency | Religious style Monsignor Name Adriano Bernardini | |
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Education Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy | ||
Reference style The Most Reverend | ||
L'arcivescovo Adriano Bernardini impone il Pallio a monsignor Lauro Tisi
Adriano Bernardini (born 13 August 1942) is the former Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and San Marino, a post to which he was appointed on 15 November 2011. He ceased to the Nuncio to Italy on 12 September 2017.
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Biography
On 31 March 1968, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rome. He then attended the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy to study diplomacy while earning a doctorate in canon law at the same time.
His first assignment in the diplomatic service of the Holy See was in the Apostolic Nunciature to Pakistan, which also follows events in Afghanistan. He later worked in the nunciatures to Angola, Japan, Venezuela and Spain. On 17 January 1989 he was appointed chargé d'affaires of the nunciature in Taiwan. On 20 August 1992, just days after his 50th birthday, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Falerii and Apostolic Nuncio to Bangladesh. He received episcopal consecration on 15 November 1992 from Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
Bernardini remained in Bangladesh until 15 June 1995, when he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles. He was next appointed Nuncio to Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia and Apostolic Delegate to Burma, Laos, Malaysia and Brunei on 24 July 1999. On 26 April 2003 came his appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina, and on 15 November 2011, the 19th anniversary of his episcopal consecration, his appointment at 69 years of age as Nuncio to Italy and San Marino.
He was succeeded as Nuncio to Italy and San Marino on 12 September 2017 by Swiss-born diplomat Archbishop and recent Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina Emil Paul Tscherrig, who is the first non-Italian to hold this position since since Italy and Holy See established full diplomatic ties in 1929, as part of the Lateran Pacts which granted the Vatican political independence from the Italian government. Like Bernardini, Tscherrig had previously served as Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina before becoming Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and San Marino as well.