Agostino Giuseppe Delfino OFMCap (17 June 1935 18 October 2020) was an Italian-born Capuchin and bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Delfino was born in Italy. He joined the Capuchin order in 1952 and was ordained a priest on September 19, 1959.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Berbérati on June 17, 1991. Delfino was ordained a bishop by the Archbishop of Bangui, Joachim N'Dayen, on October 27 of the same year in the Cathedral of St. Anne in Berbérati; Co-consecrators were Michel Marie Joseph Maître CSSp, Bishop of Bambari, and Armando Umberto Gianni OFMCap, Bishop of Bouar.

Delfino served as bishop of Berbérati from 1991 to 2010.[1] On June 17, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. his application for resignation for reasons of age. He died in the Capuchin convent in Savona.

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