Alessandro Assolari

Alessandro Assolari (26 August 1928 – 13 April 2005) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

Ordained to the priesthood on 13 March 1954[1] as a member of the Missionaries of the Company of Mary, Assolari was a priest in Madagascar from then until he moved to Malawi in 1961.

He became the first vicar apostolic prefect of Mangochi, a predominantly Islamic area, in 1969.

[2] Assolari was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangochi, Malawi on 8 December 1973.

[1] He signed the pastoral letter of March 1992, contributing to political reform in Malawi.