Rino Passigato

Styles of Rino Passigato
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Rino Passigato (born 29 March 1944, in Bovolone) is an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, who is the current Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal.

Biography

Passigato was ordained a Priest on the 29 Jun 1968 in Verona, Italy. In 1991 he was appointed to be the Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Burundi. By 1996 he was Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia and in 1999 he had moved on to Peru. On 8 November 2008 he took up his current post in Portugal that had been vacated by Archbishop Alfio Rapisarda, who had retired. He also served in the Apostolic Nunciature in Canberra (Australia)in the late 1970s and also in the United Kingdom under Apostolic Nuncio Barbaroto.

External links

• Page at Catholic Hierarchy website

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Pietro Sambi	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Burundi 16 December 1991-18 March 1996	Succeeded by Emil Paul Tscherrig
Preceded by Fortunato Baldelli	Apostolic Nuncio to Peru 17 July 1999-8 November 2008	Succeeded by Bruno Musarò
Preceded by Alfio Rapisarda	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal 8 November 2008-incumbent	Succeeded by incumbent