Claudio Dalla Zuanna

Claudio Dalla Zuanna (born 7 November 1958) is an Argentine-born Italian Catholic archbishop. In 2012 he was appointed Archbishop of Beira, in Mozambique. He resigned as archbishop on 10 April 2026, at the age of 67 years.^[1][2]

Dalla Zuanna was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 November 1958 to Italian parents. When he was a child his family moved back to their town of origin (San Nazario, in the province of Vicenza and Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua). After scuole medie he attended the educatational institutions of the Priests of the Sacred Heart and became a member of their congregation.

Ordained a priest in 1984, he travelled to Mozambique the next year as a missionary and remained there until 2003. While there he held several important offices in the church; from 2009 he was vicar general.

Life and career

On 7 October 2012 he returned to Mozambique after being named Archbishop of Beira. His consecration took place in the basketball stadium of the railway club of Beira and was carried out by the president of the episcopal conference of Mozambique, Lucio Andrice Muandula. On 29 June 2013, Pope Francis granted him the pallium during a ceremony in St Peter's Basilica on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. On 10 April 2026, Archbishop Claudio Dalla Zuanna resigned from the pastoral care of the Ecclesiastical Metropolitan Province of Beira, Mozambique. Pope Leo XIV accepted his resignation that day.