Lino Esterino Garavaglia

Career Ordination

On 4 October 1945, Garavaglia joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He professed on 15 August 1948, and made his solemn vows on 15 August 1951. On 5 December 1954, he was ordained as a priest in the Milan Cathedral.

Garavaglia attended the University of Milan for courses in the Middle-Far East Institute, graduated from the University of Leuven in missiology, and graduated from the Higher School of the Journalists Association of Upper Italy in journalism. From 1956 to 1976, Garavaglia served as a provincial secretary, and as national secretary for the missions from 1966 to 1973. From 1969 to 1981, he served as a representative of the religious in the Presbyteral council of the diocese of Milan. In the Lombard Capuchin Province he served as the definitor from 1970 to 1973, and vice-provincial from 1973 to 1979.

On 25 March 1991, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II to serve as the bishop of the diocese of Cesena-Sarsina to succeed Luigi Amaducci. On 5 May, he was installed as bishop and served until his resignation on 9 September 2002. On 3 December 2003, he announced that Antonio Lanfranchi would succeed him and granted him the pastoral care on 25 January 2004. On 12 June 2020, Garavaglia died in a nursing home in Cesena, Italy, at the age of 92. Following his death he was praised by Cesena mayor Enzo Lattuca as an "important point of reference" to the community.