Petris Bishop was born in 1939. He entered the seminary at a young age Archbishop of Udine, will he studied classics, then studied philosophy and theology that led him to the priesthood, received in 1963 to 25 years. After just three years of parish ministry in his diocese held the better hand or sent by his bishop among the Italians in great waves in those years emigrated to Germany.
First destination is assigned the leadership of the Italian Catholic Mission of Saarbrucken and, as director, he devoted himself primarily to all services that a good parish pastoral place in Italy to his faithful. A large load is added to the social services, given that the emergency emigration causes a lot of needs and demands which the young missionary tries to respond by way of substitution, given the failures or delays in this area of \u200b\u200bpublic institutions, including consulates. A typical example of this valuable service is the social network of afterschool, including fifteen years in 1300 Italian students have benefited from the Saar. 
just don Luigi For fifteen years he worked in the mission, until in 1981 the German Bishops' Conference, on recommendation of the Italian, has appointed National Delegate of all the 130 Italian priests who were then engaged in 90 Catholic Missions in the service of more than 500,000 Italian immigrants. The delegation, which is based in Frankfurt, a diocese is a bishop or his delegate, but the area of \u200b\u200bdiscretion given to Don Luigi was the size, population and the combination of commitments of a diocese not too small. In Frankfurt also took the chair of the local EPI (Ente per Italis) who is also editor of the Corriere della Sera of Italy "to date is the week of our countrymen in Germany. It remains in this position for ten years, and loved estimated by German and Italian.
Another step forward in service to the Italian Church and migration will have to do in 1991 when he was called to Rome as Director of the National Pastoral Italian emigrants in the Migrantes Foundation: its range extends beyond Germany, as well as Europe, on every continent where it is still alive the Italian presence, calculated over four million. His apostolic zeal has free rein here and visit in five years' service, encourages, supports hundreds of Italian missionaries working in various fields of action. 
awaits him in 1996 but a final step, because the President of the Italian Episcopal Conference the designated successor to Bishop Lino B. Belotti, who elected Auxiliary Bishop of Bergamo. Don Luigi now has before him or, rather, is dipped into all forms of human mobility followed by Migrantes: Roma and Sinti, circus and fieranti, people and people of the sea air, Italian immigrants and immigrants in Italy.
is not a formal title or an honor, but a big responsibility that he faces the door firmly and relentlessly outside Rome in all directions, there is a convention or a celebration of some of these areas participant who does not see it. And there is the field of civil and ecclesial life, or even relate in any way that migration does not become a commitment for him because you do this Migrantes. This can be considered emblematic of his assiduous attention, it seems the passion, because the bi-monthly "Service Emigrants bait on time and richness of content, so as to become the authoritative voice Migrantes even in the face to the public. Plays with dedication and unique expertise this requirement, so that the expiry of five years did not surprise anyone who has been reappointed.
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