Ferdinando Maggioni

Ferdinando Maggioni (5 February 1914 – 2 December 1998) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who devoted the first half of his career to seminary education, including six years as Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome.

He was spiritual director at another college until 1955 and then rector of another college until 1960, when Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, made him head of the archdiocesan office of education.

In 1961 he succeeded Francesco Bertoglio as Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary, a position he held until 1967.

[2] He received his episcopal consecration on 29 October 1967 from Cardinal Giovanni Colombo, Archbishop of Milan.

[citation needed] On 17 July 1980, Pope John Paul II named him Bishop of Alessandria.