Luigi Bonazzi

Luigi Bonazzi (19 June 1948 – 3 December 2025) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He served as the apostolic nuncio to Canada from December 2013 to December 2020, and to Albania from 2020 to 2025.

Biography Luigi Bonazzi was born in Gazzaniga, Italy on 19 June 1948. He was ordained a priest on 30 June 1973. He held a Doctorate in educational sciences from the Salesian Pontifical University (Rome), and a Licence in Theology and in Canon Law from the Lateran Pontifical University (Rome). John Paul named him Nuncio to Cuba on 30 March 2004.

On 14 March 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Bonazzi Nuncio to Lithuania and Estonia. He was named Nuncio to Latvia as well on 25 March.

Pope Francis appointed him Nuncio to Canada on 18 December 2013. On 22 February 2019, a Canadian man, Christian Vachon, charged that Bonazzi's predecessor as nuncio, Luigi Ventura, had touched him improperly in July 2008, when he was 32. Vachon said Bonazzi called him the day he registered his complaint to discuss it.

On 10 December 2020, Pope Francis named him Apostolic Nuncio to Albania.

On 21 January 2025, Pope Francis accepted his resignation.

Death Bonazzi died on 3 December 2025, at the age of 77.