Present Government
As of September 2012, the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan is Cardinal Angelo Scola, who has been serving since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on June 11, 2011, having served previously as the Cardinal Patriarch of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice in Venice, Italy. Cardinal Scola had succeeded the retiring Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, who had been in office since 2002 and had been a possible conservative papabile.
Cardinal Scola is assisted by a Vicar General, the Auxiliary Bishop Mario Delpini, and two other Auxiliary Bishops, Erminio De Scalzi and Luigi Stucchi.
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