Alfredo Bastianelli

Alfredo Bastianelli (born 26 January 1951) is an Italian diplomat, Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and Papal Gentleman. He is married and has three children.

Education Bastianelli holds a law degree from Sapienza University of Rome. Besides his native Italian, Bastianelli speaks English, French and Portuguese.

Career He held various posts in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic missions of Italy in Brazil, Canada, Mozambique, Indonesia, European Union. From 2009 to 2012 he was an ambassador to Cyprus.

From 2013 to 2015 he was an ambassador to Belgium. At the same time, in 2014, for a few months he was in charge of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Bruxelles, pending the appointment of a new director.

In 2016 he was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien, the Order's Grand Master. Chevalier d’Honneur of Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs.