Fr. Giulio Schiavi, PIME, entered eternal life on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, at the age of 90.
Fr. Schiavi was born on June 12, 1935, in Onore, Italy. He embarked on his vocational journey at the Diocesan Seminary of Bergamo, continuing his theological studies at the PIME Theological Seminary in Milan. On April 6, 1962, he took the final promise, and on March 30, 1963, he was ordained a priest in Milan by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI.
In the same year he left for the mission in Bangladesh, first passing through the United States to study the English language. In 1969, he took over Beneedwar, succeeding Fr. Giuseppe Cavagna. In 1980, he was assigned to Papua New Guinea, where he contributed to the resumption of PIME's missionary activity in the region, after more than a century of absence. He worked in Bolu Bolu (within the Diocese of Alotau) and on the island of Goodenough, until 1986, when he was appointed rector of the seminary in Newark, Ohio.
After completing his work in Newark, he returned to Papua New Guinea, to Watuluma. From 1992 to 1995 he held the role of Regional Superior of PIME in the country. He then returned to the United States, where Cardinal Adam J. Maida of Detroit appointed him pastor of San Francesco Church in Clinton Township, a position he held with dedication until July 31, 2017. Although he left the leadership of the parish due to having reached the age limit, he continued to reside there, offering his help in the pastoral ministry.
With the progressive worsening of his health conditions, on Feb. 10, 2020, he was transferred to the Central Delegation of PIME at the Community of Rancio di Lecco, where he passed away peacefully, returning to the Father's House.
His funeral Mass was celebrated Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. at the PIME Missionaries’ House in Rancio de Lecco. He will be buried at the PIME cemetery of Villa Grugana.
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