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YearAgeBishopEventTitleCurrent Title1928Lucas Liu Hsien Tang (Liu Xiantang)BornBishop Emeritus of Hsinchu, Taiwan1932Joseph Niangoran TekyBornBishop Emeritus of Man, Côte d’Ivoire1933Orlando Romero CabreraBornBishop Emeritus of Canelones, Uruguay1934Eugenio BininiBornBishop Emeritus of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, Italy1944José Octavio Ruiz ArenasBornSecretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Evangelization1948Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, O.F.M.BornBishop of Jinotega, Nicaragua1952Renato BoccardoBornArchbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, ItalyMaurice MonierBornPro-Dean Emeritus of the Roman Rota1956Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S.BornArchbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA195722.6Gerardo PierroOrdained PriestPriest of Salerno (-Acerno), ItalyArchbishop Emeritus of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno, Italy31.0Emmanuel WamalaOrdained PriestPriest of Masaka, UgandaCardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Kampala, Uganda23.1Damian ZimońOrdained PriestPriest of Katowice, PolandArchbishop Emeritus of Katowice, Poland1959Maximino Caballero LedoBornPrefect of the Secretariat for the EconomyFrancesco Neri, O.F

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Apostolic nuncio accused of money laundering to enter plea bargain

Rome, Italy, Feb 9, 2021 / 17:01 pm

Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, the apostolic nuncio to the Democratic Republic of Congo, announced last week that he will enter a plea bargain with an Italian court after he and his brother Guido were accused of money laundering, but will not admit guilt.

The prosecutor was investigating the alleged smuggling of Argentine meat into Italy managed by the archbishop's father, Gerolamo.

The legal issue, which does not involve the Holy See, was a family business in which Archbishop Balestrero "acted in full good faith," according to investigators.

The prosecutor focused on money transferred by the archbishop to his brother Guido as a donation. According to the investigators, the process in which the money was transferred (some $4.8 million) constituted at the end a scheme to launder the money.

According to Archbishop Balestrero, who was Nuncio in Colombia when Pope Francis visited the country in 2017, he accepted an anticipated bequest by his father and transferred his brother's share to his brother's bank account.

In a note sent to CNA, Archbishop Balestrero said that this is "exclusively a family issue" dealing with his father's entrepreneurial activity in the early 1990s.