What is Bernardino Piñera?
{{Infobox Christian leader | name = Bernardino Piñera Carvallo | birth_date = 22 September 1915 | death_date = {{death date and age |2020|June|21 |1915|September|22 |df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] }} '''Bernardino Piñera Carvallo''' (22 September 1915 &ndash; 21 June 2020) was a [[Chile]]an prelate of the Catholic Church. He was born in [[Paris]], [[France]]. When he died at age 104, he was the [[List of oldest Catholic bishops|oldest]] living Catholic bishop.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mensaje.cl/iglesia/mons-bernardino-piera-cumple-hoy-100-aos-de-vida|title=Mons. Bernardino Piñera cumple hoy 100 años de vida|publisher=mensaje.cl|access-date=22 September 2016|archive-date=23 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923032917/http://www.mensaje.cl/iglesia/mons-bernardino-piera-cumple-hoy-100-aos-de-vida|url-status=dead}}</ref> Piñera was [[ordination|ordained]] as a priest on 5 April 1947 and worked for the [[Catholic Action]]. On 11 February 1958, [[Pope Pius XII]] appointed Piñera Carvallo [[auxiliary bishop]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Talca|Talca]]. In May 2020, he was diagnosed with [[COVID-19]]. Piñera died on 21 June 2020 from [[pneumonia]] caused by COVID-19 in [[Santiago de Chile]], aged 104.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.episcopado.cl/40635-fallece-monsenor-bernardino-pinera-carvallo.html |title=Fallece Monseñor Bernardino Piñera Carvallo |access-date=2020-06-21 |archive-date=2020-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623041745/http://www.episcopado.cl/40635-fallece-monsenor-bernardino-pinera-carvallo.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpinc.html Catholic Hierarchy] {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinera Carvallo, Bernardino}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile]] [[Category:Chilean centenarians]] [[Category:Chilean Roman Catholic bishops]] [[Category:People from Paris]] {{bio-stub}}