Aldo Giordano

Giordano was born in Cuneo, Italy. He attended the last year of elementary school and middle and high school in the Seminary of Cuneo (1965-1973). He completed his studies in philosophy and theology and obtained a bachelor's degree in 1978. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Cuneo on 28 July 1979.[1]

From 1978 to 1982 he studied philosophy in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was awarded a licenciate in 1980 and a doctorate on the thought of Nietzsche in 1982. During this time he was vice pastor of the parish of SS. Sacramento sulla Prenestina.[1]

From 1982 to 1996 he served as professor of philosophy at the Inter-Diocesan School in Fossano (Cuneo). At the diocesan level taught the history of philosophy in the seminary high school, he has taught courses on ethics in the school of theology for lay people, he worked as a curate in the parish of S. Pius X in Cuneo and followed the diocesan pastoral areas of politics, economics, medicine and culture.[1]

On 15 May 1995 he was elected secretary-general Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe and was transferred to St. Gallen, Switzerland, where it is headquartered. He served in this role for 13 years. In 2002 he was awarded the title Chaplain of His Holiness and in 2006 Prelate of His Holiness.[1]

On 7 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.[2]

On 26 October 2013, Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela and Titular Archbishop of the Tamada. He succeeded Pietro Parolin who left the nuncio's position to become Secretary of State.[1] Parolin ordained Giordano a bishop at the Palasport di San Rocco Castagnaretta in Cuneo on 14 December.[3]

Giordano is one of a small number of diplomats to represent the Holy See who has not been trained at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.

• La questione etica. Una sfida della memoria (in Italian). Rome: Città Nuova. 1990. ISBN 8831132423.
• With F. Tomatis. Cristianesimo ed Europa. La sfida della mondialità (in Italian). Rome: Città Nuova. 1993. ISBN 8831132490.
• Un'altra Europa è possibile. Ideali cristiani e prospettive per il vecchio continente (in Italian). Cinisello Balsamo: San Paolo. 2013. ISBN 9788821579844.

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