Antoine Scopelliti

Scopelliti was born in Gallico Superiore [it], a neighborhood in Reggio Calabria, on 9 April 1939. He entered the Order of the Holy Trinity, where he was ordained a priest on 18 December 1965, in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci, by Francesco Vollaro [de; es], Bishop of Ambatondrazaka. He was assigned to the Trinitarian missions in Madagascar.^[1]

Scopelliti was appointed by Pope John Paul II as Coadjutor Bishop of Ambatondrazaka on 21 January 1991. He received episcopal consecration from the same bishop who ordained him a priest, on 5 May of the same year. The Auxiliary Bishop of Mahajanga, Michel Malo, and the Bishop of Antsirabe, Philibert Randriambololona, participated in the consecration. With the retirement of Vollaro, Scopelliti succeeded him on 6 March 1993 as Bishop of Ambatondrazaka.^[2]

Pope Francis accepted Scopelliti's age-related resignation on 11 April 2015. He thus became Bishop Emeritus of Ambatondrazaka.^[3][4]

Scopelliti died on 22 October 2023, at the age of 84.^[5]