Bishop Alfonso Raimo

Msgr. Alfonso Raimo was born on 2 July 1959 in Calabritto, in the province of Avellino, in the present-day archdiocese of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia. He was awarded a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, San Luigi Section, and subsequently a licentiate in theology of mission from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 18 March 1990. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Santi Martino e Quirico in Fisciano (1990-1998), parish priest of Santi Martino e Quirico, Fisciano (1998-2011), regional head of missionary pastoral care of the Episcopal Conference of the Campania Region (2001-2012), lecturer in theology of mission at the Theological Institute of Salerno and the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in Salerno (since 2007), parish priest of Santa Maria del Carmine e Sant’Eustachio in San Francesco, Eboli (2011-2019), national secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union and the Pontifical Society of Saint Peter the Apostle of the Pontifical Mission Societies (2012-2015), parish priest of San Bartolomeo Apostolo, Eboli (since 2015), deputy director of the diocesan Missionary Office (2016-2020), vicar general and member of the Council of Economic Affairs of the diocesan Museum (since 2020), and member of the College of Consultors and the diocesan Pastoral Council (since 2021).