{{Short description|Italian Catholic bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | honorific-prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend | name = Mario Meini | image = Mario Meini.jpg | title = Bishop Emeritus of Fiesole | diocese = Fiesole | appointed = 13 February 2010 | enthroned = 18 April 2010 | predecessor = Luciano Giovannetti | other_post = Vice President of the Italian Episcopal Conference | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|11|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Legoli, Peccioli, Tuscany | nationality = Italian | religion = Roman Catholic | previous_post = Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello (1996–2010) | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Mario Meini.svg | motto = Pax et Lux<br>{{Langx|en|Peace and Light}} | module = {{Ordination | embed = yes | ordained deacon by = | date of diaconal ordination = | place of diaconal ordination = | ordained priest by = | date of priestly ordination = 27 June 1971 | place of priestly ordination = Diocese of Volterra | consecrated by = Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli | co-consecrators = Ovidio Lari<br />Antoni Bagnoli | date of consecration = 7 September 1996 | place of consecration = | elevated by = | date of elevation = | bishop 1 = Guglielmo Borghetti | consecration date 1 = 15 September 2010 | sources = }} | successor = Stefano Manetti | ended = 21 April 2022 }} '''Mario Meini''' (born 17 November 1946) is an Italian ordinary of the Catholic Church and the Bishop Emeritus of Fiesole.
== Biography == Mario Meini was born on 17 November 1946 in Legoli, a village in the Italian ''comune'' of Peccioli, which is located in Tuscany. He received his secondary education at the Minor Seminary of Volterra and studied theology at the Pontifical Regional Seminary "Pius XII" of Siena. He later received a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
As such, on 27 June 1971, Meini was ordained a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Volterra. On 13 July 1996, Pope John Paul II announced that he would appoint Meini to succeed Giacomo Babini as Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello.
On 7 September 1996, he was consecrated a bishop, the principal consecrator being Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli, Bishop of Volterra, and the co-consecrators being Ovidio Lari and Antonio Bagnoli, Bishops Emeriti of Aosta and Fiesole, respectively. As bishop, Meini took the Latin motto "Pax et Lux," which in English means "Peace and Light."
Following a pastoral visit on 25 May 2002, Meini announced that there would be a diocesan synod, and promulgated the synodal documents on 22 March 2005.
Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Meini to succeed Luciano Giovannetti as Bishop of Fiesole on 13 February 2010. He assumed his bishopric on 18 April 2010. Guglielmo Borghetti, for whom Meini had been the principal consecrator on 15 September 2010, succeeded Meini as Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello.
On 11 November 2014, Meini was elected Vice President for Central Italy of the Italian Episcopal Conference.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.diocesifiesole.it/vescovo/meini.html|title=S.E. Mons. Mario Meini|last=|first=|date=|website=Diocese of Fiesole|publisher=|language=Italian|access-date=8 September 2016|archive-date=26 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126055416/https://diocesifiesole.it/vescovo/meini.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmeini.html|title=Bishop Mario Meini|last=|first=|date=|website=Catholic Hierarchy|publisher=|access-date=8 September 2016}}{{Self-published source|date=March 2017}}</ref>
On 21 April 2022, Pope Francis accepted Meini's resignation as Bishop of Fiesole and appointed Stefano Manetti as his successor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=21 April 2022 |title=Resignations and Appointments |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/04/21/220421b.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240630152938/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/04/21/220421b.html |archive-date=30 June 2024 |access-date=30 June 2024 |website=Summary of Bulletin |publisher=Holy See Press Office}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category-inline|Mario Meini}} * [http://www.diocesifiesole.it/ Diocese of Fiesole] * [https://www.chiesacattolica.it/ Italian Episcopal Conference]
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