Archbishop Adriano Bernardini, former Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and San Marino, has died at the age of 83. His death occurred on 11 September at the Villa del Rosario nursing home in Rome, where he had been hospitalised for six weeks.
Born in Piandimeleto, in the Italian diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro, on 13 August 1942, Archbishop Bernardini devoted his life to the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
He studied at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary and the Pontifical Lateran University, where he gained a doctorate in canon law, before completing his formation at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Ordained priest in 1968, he entered the Vatican’s diplomatic corps soon after.
