Claudio Maniago

Claudio Maniago (born February 8, 1959, Florence) is an Italian, Roman Catholic bishop. (bishop of Castellaneta and Satafi).

He was born in Florence on February 8, 1959. He entered the major seminary, attending the Florentine theological College and the Almo college of Capranica, followed by the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo.

On April 19, 1984, he was ordained priest by Archbishop Silvano Piovanelli (letter Cardinal). From 1987 to 1994 he was rector of the minor seminary, director of the diocesan center for vocations and member of the diocesan pastoral council and ecclesiastical assistant of the Serra Club. In 1988 he became the Archbishop of Florence. In 1991 he was the director of the diocesan liturgical office and member of the ordained commission.

In 1994 he became a pro-vicar of the metropolitan archdiocese, moderator of the archbishop's curia and honorary canon of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. In 2001 he was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Florence.

On July 18, 2003, at just 44, Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop of Florence and bishop of Satafi. On September 8, he received episcopal ordination, in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, by Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, Archbishop Ennio Antonelli (later Cardinal) and Bishop Gualtiero Bassetti (later archbishop and cardinal). At the time of the episcopal appointment he was the youngest bishop of Italy.

In 2008, the new archbishop of Florence Giuseppe Betori confirmed him as the Vicar General of the Archdiocese.

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