Leo XIV appoints an interfaith champion, Monsignor Alfonso Raimo, 67, as Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy (September 15).
Raimo has been auxiliary bishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno since April 2024 and a honoaray member of Rotary Club since 2025.
Founder of an interreligious organization
In 2022, the School of Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue was formally constituted, with Raimo as its president.
In an October 2023 interview, Raimo explicitly connected the origins of his interreligious School with John Paul II's Assisi gathering. He explained that people of different religions walk together because “all religions can offer a contribution” to attaining peace.
He considers dialogue “not only as a desirable possibility but as a common obligation and the only viable path.”
Raimo described peace as a “harmony of differences” and called for accepting “diversity as an opportunity for personal growth and social development.”
Christ went the "path of dialogue"
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Has Leo XIV ever chosen a candidate who is unambiguously Catholic? Next bad guy promoted.
In June 2024, Raimo participated in a ceremony inside Salerno Cathedral presenting the restoration of Queen Margherita of Durazzo's funerary monument, a project financed by Inner Wheel Club Salerno. The national president of Inner Wheel attended alongside Raimo. Later that year, Inner Wheel and five Rotary clubs organized another major cultural event inside the cathedral.