The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Attilio Nostro, of the clergy of the diocese of Rome, until now parish priest of San Mattia, as bishop of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea, Italy.
Curriculum vitae
Msgr. Attilio Nostro was born on 6 August 1966 in Palmi, province of Reggio Calabria and diocese of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi. He entered the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary and obtained a baccalaureate in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a licentiate in marriage and family studies from the Pontifical Lateran University.
He was ordained a priest on 2 May 1993 for the diocese of Rome.
He has held the following positions: parish vicar of Santa Maria delle Grazie al Trionfale (1993-1995) and of Gesù Divino Lavoratore (1995-2001); and parish priest of San Giuda Taddeo (2001-2014). From 2011 he served as prefect of the XIX Prefecture of the diocese of Rome for a four-year period. From 2014 until the present he has held the role of parish priest of San Mattia in Rome and teacher of Catholic religion at the Nomentano Scientific Lyceum.
The Diocese of Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Calabria, southern Italy, created in 1986. In that year the historical Diocese of Mileto was united with the Diocese of Nicotera-Tropea. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova.
The town of Mileto was founded as a fortress by Roger I, Count of Sicily in 1058, and he resided there from time to time, dealing with the rebels of Calabria. It was Count Roger who petitioned the pope to create a diocese at Mileto. Mileto was made an episcopal see by Pope Gregory VII in 1073, who suppressed the diocese of Vibona permanently and transferred its territory and assets to Mileto. The Pope personally consecrated its first Bishop, Arnolfo.
Pope Urban II visited Mileto in June 1091. On 3 October 1093, Urban II confirmed the privileges of the diocese of Mileto and the suppression of the diocese of Tauriana and the diocese of Vibona.
Roger II, King of Sicily, was born and baptized in Mileto in 1095.
On 23 December 1121 Pope Callixtus II confirmed once again the union of the diocese of Mileto with the diocese of Tauriana and diocese of Vibona, the latter destroyed by the Saracens. He also granted the plea of Bishop Gaufredus that bishops of Mileto would continue in perpetuity to be consecrated by the Pope personally, as had been the case with his predecessors.
The earthquake of 1783 destroyed the cathedral, built by Count Roger, who also built the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity and St. Michael for Greek Basilian monks.
