Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas
Msgr. Antonio Crameri, S.S.C., was born in Locardo, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, on 4 January 1969. He entered the seminary of the Society of Priests of Saint Joseph Cottolengo in Turin, received priestly ordination on 8 June 1996, and was incardinated in the aforementioned Society. He obtained a licentiate in pastoral theology of health care at the Camillianum International Institute for the Pastoral Theology of Health Care, Rome. He held the following offices in Italy: collaborator at the rehabilitation community in Pinerolo in the La Verbena Community for the care of drug users; and substitute teacher at the Piccola Casa seminary in Turin. After arriving in Ecuador he became parish priest of Santa Marianita in the Mission of Esmeraldas, coordinator of catechesis, member of the presbyteral council and head of formation of permanent deacons (2002 to 2016). He is currently parish priest of the San Agustín parish in Flavio Alfaro and Novillo in the archdiocese of Portoviejo. Second Sermon of Advent.