Italian missionary and friend of Bangladesh s poor dies at 91
Father Adolfo L Imperio set up schools and hostels to provide education for poor ethnic children
Italian PIME missionary Father Adolfo L Imperio served in Bangladesh for more than four decades. He passed away in Italy at the age of 91 on July 3. (Photo: Dinajpur Diocese)
Catholics in Bangladesh are mourning an Italian missionary priest credited with designing churches and providing vital support for the socioeconomic development of poor and indigenous communities over four decades.
Father Adolfo L’Imperio, a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), died on July 3 in Lecco, Italy. He was 91. He had been suffering from various old-age ailments.