Eugenio Scarpellini

Eugenio Scarpellini (8 January 1954 – 15 July 2020) was an Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic bishop.

Biography

Scarpellini was born in Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1974. He served as titular bishop of Bida and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Alto, Bolivia from 2010 to 2013. He then served as bishop of the El Alto Diocese from 2013 until his death in 2020, when he died after contracting COVID-19 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia.