Background
SILVANI, Maurizio was born in Isola Sant’Antonio, Alexandria, Italy.
SILVANI, Maurizio was born in Isola Sant’Antonio, Alexandria, Italy.
Educated in Alexandria. Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Law, Sant'- Apollinare Pontifical University, Rome.
Secretary, apostolic nunciature in Vienna, 1917, Munich, 1918, Lisbon, 1919. Auditor, apostolic nunciature in Buenos Aires, 1920-1925. Charge d’affaires, Caracas, 1926.
Titular archbishop of Lepanto. Apostolic nuncio in Dominican Republic, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, 1936-1942. Helped settle the Haiti-Dominican Republic boundary dispute, 1938.
Apostolic nuncio to Chile, since 1942.